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Date – 19th Jun 2021

The states and Union Territories have closed schools and conducted web classes due to COVID-19 pandemic. Following the announcement on the cancellation of board exams amid the pandemic by the national and state boards, students and parents/ guardians across the state wonder when schools will reopen in India because the COVID-19 graph shows a decline in the daily number of COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centre on June 18, 2021 said it will take a turn reopening of schools only the majority of teachers are vaccinated.

Dr VK Paul, Niti Aayog (health) member, said on June 17, 2021 -

• “A lot of things need to be considered while deciding on reopening schools it's a different topic entirely. This is a question that keeps coming in the govt system,”.
• “There are teachers, helpers. We must take every aspect into consideration before deciding on when to open the schools,”
• “We don't want to put our youngsters, teachers in that situation unless we have more confidence that the pandemic won't harm us”.
• “But as vaccination coverages widen, teachers get vaccinated, we change habits and implement social distancing in everyday lives then there should come a time when schools can certainly reopen,”
• “Reopening schools remains a larger discourse, but info that seroprevalence remains equal among children will be useful information,”

Dr Paul responded while citing the AIIMS, World Health Organization (WHO) study of equal seroprevalence among children, and claiming the cases among children have been relatively milder.

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