DepEd halts field trips due to coronavirus

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:56:24 +0000

The Department of Education has temporarily halted field trips, educational tours, and other off-campus or out-school-activities due to the threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus in the country.

Education Secretary Leonor Briones, in the First Set of Policy Directives of the DepEd Task Force on nCoV as cited in DepEd Memorandum No. 15, Series of 2020, issued to all public and private elementary and secondary schools, said that all off-campus activities as defined in the DepEd Order No. 66, Series of 2017, or the Implementing Guidelines on the Conduct of Off-Campus Activities, are suspended.

Briones noted that the move is part of DepEd’s efforts to minimize the exposure risks associated with the 2019-nCoV ARD and as a support to the efforts of the government to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

Aside from issuing the first set of policy directives on nCoV, DepEd also created a Task Force nCoV to cooperate with the Department of Health for the implementation of its response to the virus, including
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