Nashik, January 05, 2021: After a wait of 9 months the official authorities gave a nod to open the schools for classes 9th to 12th of the Nashik district of Maharashtra. As per the official reports, even before resuming duties, 62 teachers were found COVID positive.
“Out of the 1,324 schools in rural Nashik and city limits, as many as 846 started classes for students of standards 9 to 12,” said a release from the district administration.
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“As many as 1,21,579 students attended schools that were shut since March-end last year due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown,” it said.
According to the new norms, 50 percent of the students will attend the school on one day and the remaining will come the next day, the release said.
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The District Health Department Carried out the COVID testing for all the teachers and non-teaching staff before the reopening of schools on January 4, 2021.
As per the official press release, before the reopening of classes in the states, RT-PCR tests of 7,063 teaching staff along with 2,500 non-teaching staff members were conducted to ensure the safety protocols.
Considering the RT-PCR tests, 62 teachers and 10 non-teaching staffers tested positive for COVID-19, it further added.
The adherence to the COVID-19 protocols are in place such as the mandatory masks, sanitization facilities, and following the social distancing norms at all times, all these are compulsory to the students, teaching and non-teaching staff.
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