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Ghaziabad: On Sunday, A private school in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad was shut down for three days as a precautionary measure after two students tested Covid positive, according to the letter written by the school Principal to the parents.
Two students from standards 3 and 9 remained absent for three days. After enquiring about them, the school received the information of their testing positive for COVID.
Acting upon the information, the school administration decided that classes from Monday to Wednesday of the school would be conducted through online mode of education only.
"All of us truly believe that Prevention is Better than Cure. As two positive cases of covid-19 have been reported in our school, the School Management has decided to suspend the offline classes for the next three days (April 11 to April 13) in order to break the coronavirus chain. We will continue imparting education through online classes," said the letter by the principal.
The letter further added that the normal classes will resume after Easter Holidays.
Weekly Covid-19 cases continued to decline in the country but the fall was slowing down as the number of fresh cases increased in Delhi, Haryana and Gujarat while a few other states showed signs of the Covid curve flattening.
However, deaths from the virus continued to fall sharply, with just around 54 fatalities recorded in the week, the lowest weekly toll in over two years since March 23-29, 2020, the week when a national lockdown was announced.
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