Maharashtra govt allows physical school for all, even pre-primary, from Monday

MUMBAI: CM Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday approved the proposal to re-open school campuses for all classes from January 24, paving the way for the return of pre-primary students to school for the first time since the March 2020 lockdown and resumption of offline teaching for classes 1-12.
BMC chief I S Chahal allowed reopening of all classes in the city from Monday. The school education department proposal had left the final decision to local area bodies.Amid surging cases, physical classes in schools, except for Std 10 and 12, and colleges were shut early this month till February 15.
The decision on offline classes came on a day the city’s Covid count dropped to 5,708, the lowest this year, from 6,032 on Wednesday. Cases have been dipping in the city this week after a sudden climb since December. However, the state’s cases rose 5% to 46,197 from 43,697 on Wednesday. Deaths in the state fell to 37, with Mumbai logging 12 for the second day.