On April 14, 2022, a teacher and a student at a Delhi School were found to be positive for COVID-19.
Following their diagnosis, the student and the teacher were immediately sent home and placed on administrative leave until they could recover fully, at which point they would be allowed to come back to the school premises.
According to the most recent information received, the classmates of the sick teachers and students have also been sent home to prevent any possible spread of the virus among the students in the classroom.
Currently, there has been no indication as to whether the school will be shutting down or moving to an online-only model soon. Further information may be expected to be released after the situation at the privately managed Delhi school has been examined.
The event occurred at a private school in the capital city of India, Delhi.
According to reports, the COVID-19 infection has been detected in the blood of two students and a teacher. Other children in the class have been sent home as a result of the incident. “We are keeping a careful eye on the issue,” Atishi, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), made the statement.
Many schools have reported active instances of COVID-19, particularly since the start of the new academic year in April 2022, after which the virus was taken down for some time. Several students returned to school in the city after almost two years of taking online classes.
Since many children have tested positive for COVID-19, some schools have opted to close their doors until the virus has been cured, and many of them are returning to internet-based learning methods.
Schools in Noida and Ghaziabad have also been closed as a result of a high number of students testing positive for the COVID-19 virus. Several incidents have been recorded at schools in the nation’s capital as well.
As a result of an increase in the number of current cases and the pace at which students are becoming sick (fever, cough, throat pain), several schools have closed their doors once cases are announced and have returned to online courses until the students and staff have recovered.
In light of the increasing number of COVID-19-positive cases in the national capital, the Delhi government has declared that it would provide recommendations for Delhi schools soon. The statement was made today, April 14, 2022, by Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister and Minister of Education in Delhi.
On April 15, 2022, the guidelines will be published and sent to all schools across Delhi, both public and private. The guidelines will talk about the COVID-19 safety policy and what to do if there are more positive cases from schools about the program.
Multiple schools have reported numerous COVID cases since students and instructors began comprehensive offline classes at the start of the new academic session in 2022–23, according to the latest available data. The health authority in Gautam Buddha Nagar has also informed schools in Noida that a large number of pupils are suffering from COVID.
There are a lot of schools in the National Capital Region (NCR) that have closed their doors and switched to an online learning environment until the kids and staff who have COVID have fully recovered.
A COVID infection was discovered in two children who attended a private school in Ghaziabad before last week’s discovery. As a result, the school was closed for three days as a precautionary measure post the incident.
As of April 13, 2022, Delhi had recorded 299 new COVID cases, a roughly 50% increase over the previous year.
