Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi chief minister, told reporters on Friday that his administration will monitor the states where schools are reopening to learn from their experiences before determining when to reopen schools in the Capital. According to Kejriwal, schools should ideally only be opened when vaccinations have been completed.
“It would be wonderful if schools could open following vaccination. We’ll wait a few days to see how other states handle school openings before making a decision. Parents are still concerned about the safety of their children “He informed reporters about it.
Last Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief stated that the government is concerned about a probable third wave of coronavirus and that schools will not open until immunization is completed.
After some courses were briefly restarted in February this year, schools in the national capital were closed in the aftermath of the second wave of the epidemic. States partially resumed physical lessons in September-October of last year, but they had to be halted again in March-April of this year.
The opening of schools has become a sensitive topic, with many experts claiming that the third wave will be particularly harsh on children, who are the largest unvaccinated group.
In the July-August quarter, instances have begun to decline in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and Rajasthan for classes 9 to 12. Dr. Randeep Guleria, director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, advised that schools should only be opened in regions where the positive rate is low, personnel is vaccinated, and schools should be closed if the positivity rate begins to rise again. He also urged authorities to monitor children so that the ones who show symptoms of coronavirus can be isolated and treated.
