Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel said schools would not be closed due to dengue outbreak as schools are safer than homes for students.
“We will not run the state following the social media. Schools will not be closed due to dengue outbreak. Rather schools are safer than homes for students,” he said this on Monday while speaking at a scholarship giving ceremony at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) here.
The deputy minister said it is not clear whether the demand of closing schools due to dengue outbreak come from guardians or it is made for spreading rumors.
He said students are in good condition at schools. There is no scientific proof that aedes mosquitoes are spreading dengue virus at schools, he said.
Mohibul said Education Ministry and Primary and Mass Education Ministry have decided to keep open schools.
He urged the people to keep clean the homesteads as aedes mosquitoes are being born at residential buildings and establishments.
