As of 2 March 2020, there have been more than 100 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Singapore, the new term minted by the World Health Organisation for the coronavirus which has infected more 100,000  people in China. This has spread to almost every country in almost all continents except Antarctica.

The Singaporean authorities issued quarantine orders to more than 2500 close contacts who’ve been identified to be in near proximity to the confirmed cases. They were located in government distinctive chalets and college hostels which can be a long way from the principle population. The good news is that greater than 50% of those quarantined don’t have any signs and has left the isolated locations.

Currently, private tutors are adversely affected by this virus outbreak. Ahome tutor teach a wide array of subjects and are inclined to journey to the students’ place for convenience purposes. However, with the increase in the total COVID-19 instances in Singapore, there may be a heightened fear of transmission as private tuition teachers move around place to place.

How do these tutors prevent transmission to their students?

1. Frequently hand-washing with soap and water

One of the recommended methods to keep away from contamination is to often wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds whenever they enter a pupil’s domestic place. cleaning their arms very well is vital as one touches many different surfaces whilst travelling to each child’s domestic, e.glift- buttons, train seats, bus hand support or overhead handles, dealing with cash from vendors or at the food stall, all of which might be potential risks in which the virus can land on. And if you need to cough or sneeze, do it into your arm or elbow and not outwards into the air.

2. Stay home if you are unwell, especially if you have respiratory problems

Should the instructor be sick, the best option would be to remain indoors if the infection is slight. See a health practitioner for diagnosis or treatment if there are respiratory problems.

3.Change to online lessons or learning

The extended popularity of online lessons is now increasing exponentially with the spread of the virus. Online lesson is the perfect preference for concerned mothers and fathers and college students who can avoid physical contact whilst instructions are completed over the laptop.

Several Singaporean educators we spoke to have started out learning the way to use apps and software program on their computer to conduct online instructions via e-learning platforms. This method permits tutors to deliver lessons to their students without any decrease in the quality of coaching. They also can update coaching assets, sample essays, recommended solutions which can be additionally saved in Google cloud services and this helps marking of test questions or fundamental sharing of records.

Those are a number of the good practices which educators from private schools, tuition centres and tuition agency in Singapore had been adopting to save them from infection of the COVID 19 virus.