Educating 120 school representatives and transport operators to protect students from Coronavirus
The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai organized an awareness workshop through visual communication technology, attended by 120 representatives of schools and operators of school transport buses in Dubai, and the workshop focused on the precautionary measures that must be followed to prevent the emerging corona virus during the transportation of students, with the approaching new school year.
The workshop gained special importance, given that the number of private school students using school transport buses reached more than 153,000 students, and the number of government school students reached more than 21,704 students, while the number of school buses reached 6,732 buses in the Emirate of Dubai.
The Director of the Planning and Business Development Department at the Public Transport Corporation, Adel Shakeri, said that the institution, as the supervisor of the activity of the school transport sector in Dubai, is keen to exert its utmost efforts to ensure the safety of students during school transportation, within the framework of our leadership's directives to follow comprehensive precautionary measures to face the repercussions of the Corona pandemic »In various sectors, especially the school transport sector, and based on this approach, an awareness workshop was organized via remote communication for the operators of school transport buses.
He added that the workshop dealt with a number of instructions and instructions to ensure the safety of students, including reducing the capacity of buses by 50% of the total capacity, and that the application includes a school bus operation service that meets the minimum required specifications, such as daily temperature checks and symptoms for all employees with Relevance to the school transportation process.