Kohima, February 8 (MTNews): The government of Nagaland has, on February 8, issued a set of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for conduct of physical or offline classes in the schools for students of classes 9 to 12, and in colleges and technical institutes, on the preventive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 effective throughout the state of Nagaland.
As per the latest SOP for students of classes 9 to 12, the physical or offline classes shall be up to 50% capacity, and any student who has completed 15 years of age shall be allowed to attend the classes only if he or she has taken at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19 or has been tested negative for COVID-19 through either RT-PCR, TrueNat or CBNAAT, once in every 15 days.
For colleges and technical institutes, the physical or offline classes shall be up to 50% capacity, and any student shall be allowed to attend only if he or she if fully vaccinated; and if the student is below 18 years of age, but above 15 years, he or she should have taken at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19. In case the vaccination criterion is not fulfilled, then the student concerned should have been tested negative for COVID-19 through either RT-PCR, TrueNat or CBNAAT once in every 15 days.
Further, all the teachers and non-teaching staff of the school, college or institute concerned shall be 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.
Nagaland Govt issues SOPs for conduct of physical classes for Cl 9 – Cl 12, Colleges and Institutes
