Guj Schools, Colleges To Resume Offline Classes From Feb 21; Night Curfew In 2 Cities
Mumbai: In view of declining COVID-19 cases, schools and colleges in Gujarat will fully resume offline classes from February 21, while night curfew in six of the eight cities will be lifted from Friday, the state government said on Thursday.
According to a tweet by Education Minister and state government spokesperson Jitu Vaghani, the government has decided to reopen all schools and colleges under the aegis of Gujarat education department, “fully for offline classes” at a core committee meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
He said the decision would be effective from February 21 to ensure that the administrators of schools and colleges and their students get enough time to shift to offline classes in compliance with the COVID-19 guidelines.
On February 5, the government had announced that schools would resume online classes as well as physical classes for classes 1 to 9 from February 7. Pre-schools and Anganwadi centres were reopened on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Home Department issued an order that the night curfew from 12 pm to 5 am will now be applicable only in two cities Ahmedabad and Vadodara from February 18 to February 25.
The decision came nearly a week after the state government on February 10 announced the lifting of night curfew from 19 cities and keeping it operational in eight cities — Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar.
There has been a steady decline in Covid-19 cases with the state reporting 870 fresh infections and 13 deaths on Thursday, a significant drop from the peak of the third wave of 24,485 cases on January 20 and 38 deaths in a single day. on February 1
On Thursday, 252 new cases and three deaths were reported in Ahmedabad city and 139 new cases and three deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Vadodara city.
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