Over 600 children test positive in Solapur after schools reopen

Solapur, July 30: Amid the fear of COVID-19 hitting the country after the second wave, as many as 613 students have tested positive for Covid-19 in Maharashtra’s Solapur. This comes after Maharashtra Minister of School Education and Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad had recommended reopening physical classes in Covid-free zones from July 12.

 

 

Gaikwad had given the orders to open schools in Covid-free zones from July 12 for physical classes. The schools only reopened for students of higher classes i.e. Classes 8 to 12.

 

However, this development has also raised concerns over the plausible lack of adherence to Covid-19 protocols for the safe opening of schools and colleges.

 

Early this month, Gaikwad while announcing the reopening of schools had said, “It has become a need of the hour to have a co-educational approach to reach out to the children of the last strata of the state.”

 

The Minister had also mandated all teachers and staff members to be vaccinated before resuming physical classes to limit the spread of infection.

 

 

“Prior to the commencement of school, corona vaccination of all teachers and non-teaching staff in the respective schools should be done as a matter of priority,” she had Tweeted.