Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Internet Team |Source: ANI |Updated: Jan 15, 2022, 09: 03 PM IST
As Kerala witnessed a steep surge in COVID-19 cases, Deliver Education Minister V Sivankutty on Saturday announced the suspension of offline classes as much as Class 9 college students from January 21.
The resolution has been taken after chairing a meeting with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan the outdated day. The classes will stay suspended for a period of two weeks.
Briefing media persons here at the present time, Sivankutty acknowledged, “Now bodily classes as much as Ninth long-established will seemingly be conducted by digital mode. About 35 lakh college students are discovering out in classes 1 to 9. No severe case of COVID-19 amongst schoolchildren has advance but. But we now comprise got to retract precautions as cases are rising.”
The minister additionally acknowledged that recent tips will seemingly be issued for varsity students of classes 9 to 12. A meeting of greater officials within the Education department will seemingly be conducted on Monday to bid revised tips for classes 9 to 12.
Informing about the completion of the syllabus, he acknowledged that the syllabus of SSLC will seemingly be executed by the vital week of February and the syllabus of greater secondary classes will seemingly be executed by the final week of February.
“There are opinions from specialists that no must droop offline classes in faculties, nonetheless, the govt. maintain no longer are making an attempt to experiment with teens,” he added. Extra, the minister told that the COVID-19 bid will seemingly be reviewed after two weeks and faculties will seemingly be reopened if the difficulty stays in point of fact helpful.
Meanwhile, persevering with the surge, Kerala on Saturday recorded over 17,000 recent Covid-19 cases without a longer no longer as much as 17,755 of us testing obvious for the coronavirus, officials acknowledged. An announcement issued by Neatly being Minister Veena George acknowledged 65,937 samples were tested within the final 24 hours. The check positivity rate (TPR) has risen to 26.92 percent.
