No Sharing, Masks A Must, Temperature Checks

Fresh Guidelines Issued!

With a surge in the daily cases of Covid-19, the capital city witnessed several guidelines and new Standard operating procedures (SOPs).

On Friday, the Delhi government issued standard operating procedures (SOPs) asking administrations to ensure that students do not share food, books, or stationery, even as it stressed that no student, teacher, or guest be allowed inside the campus without a temperature check. Schools have been asked to send back students, staff, and guests who have symptoms.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) in its Wednesday meeting also discussed data on Covid-19 cases among students and teachers from all schools in the city and decided not to stop physical classes.

According to officials, during the meeting, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government advocated for schools to stay open, reasoning that the intermittent closure of schools for the past two years of the pandemic had already caused major learning losses. DDMA then asked the education department to prepare SOPs to prevent the spread of Covid-19 on campuses.

According to the SOPs, which are similar to the guidelines issued to schools when they were permitted to reopen for physical classes with conditions last year, teachers will be required to ask students about Covid-19 symptoms while taking attendance daily and symptomatic students will have to be quarantined.

“If a student or staff member displays any Covid-19 symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle ache, headache, loss of smell or taste, sore throat, diarrhea, etc. they should be moved away from other people and into an outdoor, well-ventilated quarantine room," read the SOP.