ThiruvananThapuram: Minister of Public Education V Sivankutty on Saturday has asked all school teachers who are not vaccinated, non-teaching staff and parents to look after themselves from school when they reopened on November 1 “There are several teachers and staff who do not teach who Not yet to receive vaccines for various reasons.
I would advise them not to come to schools when academic activities began again in 1.
The government has no plan to issue government order in this matter, but we advise people like that to stay away from School at least during the early days of school reopened, “said Siativankty told reporters.
He said the preparation was almost complete for the reopening of the school on November 1, then handling a press conference, the minister revealed that as many as 2,282 teachers and 327 non-teaching staff in school had not been vaccinated.
“Teachers and non-vaccinated teachers say that they do not get jabs for health problems and health problems,” Minister said.
The reopening of the school is scheduled in two phases – on November 1 and 15.
Classes from I to VII and XII will begin in the first phase, the rest of the class, namely, VIII, IX should begin on November 15.
However, there is no clarity about whether one class will begin on November 15.
The decision to bring lower class children to school during the initial phase was taken based on the young Indian Medical Council findings (ICMR).
Children have a resistance that is relatively more than Covid.
Class X and XII students are included in the first phase because they will face the board exam in a few months.
Sivankutty said most schools were reopened because they had completed cleaning work and have prepared facilities recommended by the government.
There are 15,452 schools in the state.
Among them, 446 schools have not received a fitness certificate.
Likewise, close to 1,500 school buses have not operated after they continue to be unemployed for a long time, the Minister said.
He said as many as 24, 300 thermal scanners had been distributed to school.
“The government has published guidelines for establishing an emergency association of parents-teachers.
The meeting for the selection of office carrier can be done online.
This guideline has been issued so that PTA will definitely oversee school functions during the Covid period,” Minister said.
The minister said the government had brought to students, teachers and parents’ training programs developed by the Ministry of Health in connection with the reopening of the school.
Teachers have been trained on how to deal with new situations and how to deal with academic and psychological challenges that tend to be faced when schools reopened, adhere to a series of new norms and regulations, he said.
2,282 teachers have not been vaccinated in Kerala
