Rules for reopening kindergarten worked on by Ministry, UNICEF

Rules for reopening kindergarten worked on by Ministry, UNICEF

Muscat: Protocols for kindergartens and nurseries to reopen in Oman have been laid out by the Ministry of Social Development, in collaboration with the UNICEF.Laila Ahmed Al Najjar, the Minister of Social Development, met with Ted Chaiban, UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, to discuss the safety protocols needed to allow young children back to school. “We've recommended that children get their temperature taken at the entrance of schools, and that they are segregated into groups of, say, five, so that whatever happens to those only affects those five,” said Chaiban, in an exclusive interview with Times of Oman.“We're training teachers so that they get used to wearing masks all day and washing their hands regularly, and for a teacher to always supervise these children while they are playing,” he added.He added that of the 110 million children in the Middle East and North Africa, 40 per cent of them do not have access to adequate facilities to learn remotely, which make it very important for kindergartens, nurseries and early learning centres to reopen.The meeting between the ministry and the UNICEF touched on the document of the unified procedures of operation and the executive plan to