![]() Statement The Papua New Guinea University of Technology Senior Management has rescheduled four (4) days of classes into the second half of the semester as part of the two weeks total lock down on campus The University administration decision follows the deaths of two senior academics who died within a day of each other and had developed signs of Covid-19 prior to their deaths. The actual case of deaths has yet to be confirmed. One-week classes that were scheduled for Week 7 of the Semester, that is Tuesday to Friday of this week, will be rescheduled and be incorporated into the teaching plans of the second half of the semester, that is in Weeks 8-13 of the First Semester. Next week (12th -16th April) is the mid-semester break as per the university academic calendar. On Saturday 3rd April 2021, the University lost its first national Professor and Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering, Professor John Pumwa and the following day on Sunday 04th April 2021, it lost again another Mechanical Engineering lecturer Mr Karo Komuna. Both had developed shortness of breath prior to their deaths. As an interim precautionary measure, the University management has decided to suspend all classes for two weeks and impose a total lockdown. During this period, the university will implement other preventative measures to halt a possible widespread community transmission of Covid19 on campus. Interim measures now imposed by the management are:
Other preventative measures and directives will be issued later this week by the University management. The university management has appealed to all to comply with these directives and urged all not be irresponsible and ignorant of the imminent risk faced by the university community. Next : REST IN PEACE MAL "KELA" SMITH Comments are closed.
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