Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Aug 20: The education department has made preparations to start physical classes for standards 9 to 12 in the state from August 23. To take abundant care of the health of the students, it has also issued certain guidelines pertaining to hygiene, maintenance of social distance, wearing of masks, and vaccination of teaching and non-teaching staff among others.

One of the conditions is that the districts where the schools are located should have a positivity rate that is less than two percent for the schools to reopen. As the positivity rate in Dakshina Kannada district is in excess of two percent, physical classes will not be conducted and schools reopening has been postponed till August 28, said deputy director of public instruction (DDPI), Malleswamy.

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The DDPI said that the government had decided to conduct physical classes for ninth and tenth standards if the Covid positivity rate falls below two percent. But because the positivity rate in Dakshina Kannada district continues to be above two percent, the deputy commissioner of the district has instructed to postpone the start of the physical classes, he said. However, online classes will continue to be held as before.