Kolkata: The West Bengal government has no plans to open school at any level in the near future because there is a threat of the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic, senior official said on Tuesday.
Every time the school campus is reopened, higher class students will be the first to start offline classes and not those at the primary level, said the Ministry of Education officials.
However, the final decision on this issue will be made at the level of the government, he said.
He responded to the question of the Director of the ICMR General Balram Bhargavas Standard in Delhi that it would be wise to reopen the school in the country with the main part when children could handle virus infections much better than adults.
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However, Bhargava emphasized that for such a step to consider, it must be ensured that school teachers and other supporting staff members were vaccinated.
Going with the recommendations of health experts in the state, the possibility of third wave attacks that can affect children more and the high level of koronavirus infection even two months back, the school education department is “undue” to open primers, secondary secondary and secondary schools now or In the near future, he said.
“We have tried to start classes on campus at secondary secondary and higher in February before the second wave.
But the virulence of the pandemic changing the situation and campus activities must be completely stopped,” the official said.
Public Health Expert Dr.
Joydeb Roy said that it would not be wise to start the primary class on campus without waiting for more time because the threat of the third wave of the pandemic was so towering as possible.
“Announcing all staff including teachers must be pre-conditions to open campuses.
The return of class teaching should not be made in the current situation and must begin with a higher class,” said Roy.
Preparing the basis for reopening the school, which includes vaccination, must be done in the meantime, a leading doctor said.
Bhargava said earlier that day that India began to reopen the school, it would be wise to start with the main part when children have a lower number of Ace receptors where the virus sticks, makes it much better in handling viral infections than adults than adults adults.
The latest Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) has found that seroprevalence among those aged six to nine are 57.2 percent which are very similar to adults, he said.