It printed 8 million and 600 thousand books for the first semester

"Education" applies strict procedures for handing over books

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The Ministry of Education applies several strict procedures to deliver textbooks to students, to preserve their safety against the "Covid-19" virus, within the protocols and procedures for operating educational facilities that it recently adopted, announcing that it has finished printing eight million and 600 thousand books for the first semester of the school year. Ongoing.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry, Engineer Abdul-Rahman Al-Hammadi, said in a press statement yesterday that the ministry has put in place several steps to deliver books to students, starting with sterilizing the books at the printing press, and then placing them in an envelope that is sterilized in advance, then sterilizing them after placing them in the envelope, and they are delivered to schools that In turn, it delivers books to students who are regular in school hours, and this comes in line with the Ministry's keenness on the safety of students and observing the highest health standards that ensure protection from infection, and for students who study remotely, school administrations communicate with their parents to hand them the books.

He emphasized the Ministry's keenness to implement all approved health protocols to preserve the safety of all members of the educational community, as the Ministry took into account all health requirements during its initiation of the necessary preparations for the start of the first semester of the school year.

Procedures for using learning resources

The “Protocols and Procedures for Operating Educational Facilities During the Pandemic” guide, adopted by the Ministry of Education, defines procedures that clarify the use of learning resources in educational facilities, most notably the need to restrict the use of books made from difficult-to-clean materials, and encourage educational facilities to package books for easy cleaning and sterilization, sterilization and processing Learning resource rooms after each visit by students, with the necessity to wear masks and gloves, use sterilizers, and maintain physical spacing with a minimum distance of 1.5 meters between each two students inside the resource rooms.

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