When students return to school after almost 18 months in September, the campus is likely to be a different world – students and their teachers with masks, classes in each class in each class.
There will be no Gettogethers or possible group chat at rest in the canteen.
It’s separate, over the next week, students between class XI and XII, teacher and school staff in all states must undergo health screening.
The Department of School Education has not announced the date for the reopening of some schools (class IX to XII), but on Wednesday, the Public Health Directorate sent a standard operating procedure to the district health authority that asked them to get schools – government and private – ready to reopen.
“Schools may need time to prepare for new normal.
They must arrange facilities to wash their hands and make plans to comply with social blasphemy norms,” ​​said Public Health Director Dr.
S Selvavinayagam.
For example, according to the protocol, the school has been asked to disinfect areas such as water tanks, kitchens, canteens, bathrooms, laboratories, libraries and transportation vehicles, in addition to the surface of the furniture and equipment.
They also have to have filtering equipment such as thermometers and facilities while isolate them with symptoms.
“Even before students enter school, we want them to undergo health screening.
Private schools can do assistance from the School Health Team or PHC of neighbors.
They must take notes of children who have comorbid conditions,” he said.
Deputy Director of Public Health All districts, meanwhile, will ensure health screening for teachers and students completed before reopening and all teachers / staff and students who qualified have taken vaccines.
They also have to distribute drugs including vitamin C, multivitamins and other immune booster to students.
The school will allow only 50% of students and such as other workplaces or public areas mandated to maintain social distance.
In class, students must keep a distance of six feet when they sit – one student per bench or chair remains separate.
SOP has suggested that the school be able to use temporary space or outdoor space (in pleasant weather cases) or use large rooms such as libraries, laboratories or auditoriums to do classes, keeping physical distance protocols.
“In January, when the college was reopened, we saw a case cluster from the hostel.
On most opportunities, it happened because of a violation of the protocol,” said Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.