The guidelines are advisory in nature and it is on states to decide whether schools are required to ask for consent from parents for physical classes. The school reopening guidelines will include precaution, timetable, assessment, emotional, and mental health.
Even as senior citizens and health workers are being administered booster doses at different health centres in the city, people with a recent breakthrough infection are not sure whether they should go for the booster dose now.
With studies indicating that the Omicron Covid-19 variant is highly transmissible, public health experts say there is a need to gear up to the possibility of having to provide services to a large number of people needing home isolation and not hospitalisation.
The Union Health Ministry encouraged contact tracing for all COVID positive individuals and regular follow up for 14 days till the patient recovers with no symptoms of Covid being detected.
In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said while there has been a substantial decline in the active and new Covid-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution so as to fully overcome the pandemic.
The police department, in an RTI reply, has stated that 1,522 unnatural deaths, including 295 suicides, had taken place between March and August this year. But post-mortem was done only in 650 cases, as per the RTI reply.
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