Kerala’s daily case count should be below 7,000 for schools to reopen: Indian Academy of Pediatrics
The Hindu
Kerala government had announced on Sunday that students from Classes I to VII and those in Classes X and XII will return to school on November 1
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Kerala has to come down below 7,000 daily by mid-October for schools to reopen from November 1 onwards, according to the criteria for school reopening prescribed by the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP).
The government had announced on Sunday that students from Classes I to VII and those in Classes X and XII will return to school on November 1.
The advisory on school reopening issued by the IAP in the second week of this month had prescribed three-point criteria to be met at the local level ahead of school reopening. The second criterion said the number of new cases per lakh population per day should be less than 20 for the preceding two weeks of school reopening.