School Reopening: ABUAD Procures Multi-million Naira Anti COVID-19 facilities 

As the world battles the COVID-19 global pandemic, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has taken delivery of multimillion naira safety equipment.

The anti-Coronavirus facilities were procured preparatory to the planned re-opening of tertiary institutions by the Federal Government.

Tunde Olofintila, Head, Corporate Affairs for ABUAD, in a statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, disclosed that the facilities would be positioned at strategic locations for screening.

Some of the new facilities are: Smart Temperature Measurement and Disinfectant Channels.

The Founder of ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola, hinted that the facilities will be used for screening and prevention of Coronavirus and to ensure that those who have the virus are not allowed into the university.

He explained that the Disinfectant Channels will be installed at the University’s Main Gate, Multi-system Hospital Gate and at the University’s Administrative Block (The White Rock).

He said: “To us in this university, we believe that prevention is the best cure. Since Coronavirus is an imported disease, we are doing everything humanly possible to prevent anyone with the virus from coming into our premises. We in ABUAD believe that we can avoid the virus completely”.

Babalola said: “On stepping into any of the Screening Channels, the first thing it does is that it takes the person’s temperature. If the temperature is below 38 degrees, the words “You are welcome” automatically come from within the Channel. One will then proceed to use hand sanitizer and go into the main channel where one’s body will be sprayed with sanitizer”.

He added: “On the other hand, if one’s temperature is above 38 degrees, the Channel will make some loud noise to alert the person and those around that all is not well with the person. This machine is a marked improvement on all others before it”.

Babalola said that as the students begin to arrive the campus once again, each of them will be made to pass through the Screening channel, stressing that “if we can ensure that nobody with the virus comes into our campus, then we will be able to turn this place into an island of corona-fr

“Eight others are on the way. When they arrive, they will be installed in front of the various Halls of Residence in the University. The Smart Temperature Measurement & Disinfectant Channels have thus beefed up the earlier equipment such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, Coronavirus Test Kits for Antigen Testing, RNA Extraction Kits, Naso-pharygeal swab sticks and liquid medium, Biosafety Cabinet, an Isolation Centre and other accessories like Micropipettes procured by the university,” he said.

The Federal Government on Friday, March 20, 2020 ordered a blanket closure of all educational institutions in the country with effect from March 23, 2020 to curtail the spread of the deadly Coronavirus which made an incursion into the country earlier in February.

In its wisdom, the Federal Government on Monday, 29, 2020 directed final year students in Secondary Schools to resume and take their final year examinations, leaving out the final year students in Universities.

Source: Independent Nigeria

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