A member of the National Covid-19 response team, Dr DaCosta Aboagye says the best place for students now would be the boarding house.

He said keeping students within boarding houses is equivalent to keeping them in lockdown, which is known to limit the spread of the virus.

He said, “The best place or the safest place for the students to be is boarding house. If we all agree that lockdown is good in limiting the spread of the virus then the students there are in lockdown in a certain way.”

His statement comes in response to requests from the Ghana National Association of Private Schools for schools to be reopened in Septemeber.

According to the Association, the time to open all levels of education is now, following a sharp decline in the number of active Coronavirus cases in the country.

However, Dr. Aboagye believes for that to happen more consultations would be needed to ensure that the reopening of schools wouldn’t put students at risk of the virus.

“But further consultation would actually be needed if you cannot just say that you’re opening. It may need that there might be infrastructural changes, there might be logistical needs and all the others," he said on Joy News' The Pulse show, Monday.

“People would have to undergo several training and others so certainly we’d have to look into this if we have to open the schools in September or not but I remember the education minister has said that schools will not be reopening. So we’ll still have to engage and see what happens.”