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Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to consider reopening of schools soon.
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West Bengal is planning to reopen school soon with the decrease in covid cases.
CM Mamata Banerjee today (Thursday) said that the state will consider reopening schools and colleges after Durga Puja vactions with classes on alternate days to start with.
Ms Banerjee’s comments came a few days after a senior official at the Education Department said the government has no plans to open schools at any level in the near future as there is the threat of a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The official further said whenever school campuses reopen, students of higher classes will be the first to start offline classes and not those at the primary level.
He was responding to queries on ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava’s statement in Delhi that schools should be reopened with the primary section as children can handle viral infection much better than adults.
The ICMR chief had said that for reopening schools it must be ensured that teachers and other support staff members are vaccinated.
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