Govt permits reopening of pre-primary sections in schools

Mokokchung, February 25 (MTNews): The Government of Nagaland has permitted re-opening of pre-primary sections in schools in the State for the conduct of physical or offline classes with up to 50% attendance with effect from March 1, 2022. While informing that there is a need to continue taking measures to prevent the spread of CONVID-19, the government has issued a set of SOPs to be observed.

As per the SOP, attendance of any student for the physical or offline classes shall be with parental consent and the maximum allowed percentage of attendance of children/students in any physical/offline class on a particular day shall be 50%. It was further directed that the reopening of any school shall be subject to all the teachers and non-teaching staff of the school concerned being fully vaccinated (taken both the doses) against COVID-19, and if not vaccinated, then the person concerned should have been tested negative for COVID-19 through either RT-PCR or TrueNat or CBNAAT once in every 15 days, and further subject to adherence to all the provisions of the SOP.