Students at Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) will have to continue with their studies from home should coronavirus finally hit Kenya.
The university’s administration is mulling a plan to have lecturers develop online teaching modules for all course just in case coronavirus gets to Kenya.
CUEA Vice-Chancellor Prof Stephen Mbugua Ngari in a notice to all lecturers asked them to come up with the module for the current semester by March 20.
“I hereby direct all teaching staff to develop online teaching modules for all the units they are teaching this semester so that they can be uploaded to the university academic online platform,” CUEA Vice-Chancellor Stephen Mbugua Ngari said in a notice as reported by Daily Nation.
“The modules are to be submitted in soft copy to the In-Charge, Blended Programmes section of the university,” said Prof Ngari added.
CUEA follows in the steps of several companies across the world which have asked their staff to work from home as a precautionary measure against coronavirus.
Top on the list if Twitter which asked its staff across the globe to work from home in a bid to tame the spread of coronavirus which has killed more than 3,000 people globally.
Though there have been several scares in Kenyan regarding coronavirus, all cases have tested negative.
African countries which have reported the cases of its people being infected with the virus include Togo, Algeria, Cameroon and Nigeria.
Kenya through the National Emergency Response Committee on Coronavirus (NERCC) chaired by Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has put in place elaborate measures to contain the virus should it be confirmed in Kenya.
Last week, NERCC banned international conferences in Kenya for the next 30 days, a directive which affected 15 foreigners scheduled to hold conferences in Kenya.