In the first phase, the government has thrown open schools for Classes 9 and 10 on alternate days, but only for half-a-day. According to official figures, 98.84% of the schools were opened with 87.78% of teachers turning up to take the classes.
However, the attendance of students was not up to the expectations. Only 39.62% of students of Class 9 and 43.65% of students of Class 10 attended school in the first three days.
What caused worry for the teachers and students is the surfacing of Covid-19 cases among teachers and students, when the health department officials conducted tests on them soon after the opening of classes, as per the instructions of the government.
Similarly, tests were conducted on 95,763 students of Class 9 and 10, out of 3,92,000 students who attended the classes in the last three days. Out of them, 575 students tested positive.
“This is not a very alarming number and most of them are asymptomatic. They were immediately sent to quarantine as per the health protocol and their condition is being monitored regularly,” School Education Commissioner V Chinna Veerabhadrudu told Hindustan Times.
He said the highest number of cases surfaced in West Godavari district, where 262 out of 41,000 teachers tested positive. In Visakhapatnam, 4,527 teachers underwent testing and out of them 52 tested positive on Wednesday, he said.HT
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