Schools, colleges reopen in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, & Bihar as COVID cases drop, and physical classes for classes 9 to 12 resume
New Delhi: Schools in Delhi and four other states reopened from Monday after a wave of COVID cases had led to their closure in December. Physical classes for classes 9 to 12 resumed today in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, and Bihar.
In Delhi, classes for Nursery to standard 8 will resume on February 14, and in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that online classes for students would also continue in the national capital.
The Centre had last week said that districts with a COVID positivity rate lower than 5 percent could reopen schools, but the decision would rest with the state governments.
Noting that the pandemic situation has become better and there has been a consistent decline in new COVID-19 cases, NITI Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul had said “we have more confidence now to go in the direction of reopening schools”.
Schools in Delhi were briefly reopened before being closed again on December 28 last year in view of the third wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant.
On Sunday, Delhi reported 1,410 new COVID-19 cases with the positivity rate declining to 2.4 percent.
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