Decision On Reopening Schools After Diwali: Kishori Pednekar, Mumbai Mayor

Mumbai Schools Reopening? Mumbai's Mayor Kishori Pednekar said on Thursday that the decision of reopening schools in Mumbai and surrounding areas will be taken after Diwali.

Under speculations of the third wave of COVID-19 hitting the country, many were hoping this decision to be delayed till Diwali. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic schools in Mumbai have remained closed since last year. Many other states in India have started offline school since early this month.

A task force formed had earlier proposed vaccination of all teaching and non-teaching staff as standard operating procedures for reopening schools in Maharashtra. With a decline in COVID-19 cases, the state had also formed a committee to set guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the reopening of schools. They then suggested several mandatory protocols like staggered school hours and entry of students, social distancing inside classrooms, setting up mandatory school clinics, wearing face masks at all times, etc.

COVID-19 Numbers in Mumbai

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had also said in a recent report that they have some groundwork to do before schools open for physical classes.

Mumbai reported 488 COVID-19 cases and four fatalities on September 22, taking the infection tally to 7,39,364 and the fatality count to 16,063, according to a civic official. With this, the active coronavirus cases in the metropolis reached 4,706. In Maharashtra, the current active infection tally has reached 39,984 as of Wednesday.

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