The governments of the following states/UT have given an alert regarding the reopening of educational institutes: Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Odisha.

Shut since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country for the second time earlier this year, schools are gradually beginning to resume physical classes with most state governments looking at opening the education sector with Covid-appropriate norms in place, even as attendance has not been made mandatory.

However, most of these states have ordered the authorities to initially open the schools for 9th to 12th classes while the reopening of Private Universities depends on their respective managements and the decisions on government-run universities are still pending & can be expected within a month.

In US, which is battling the worse COVID situation across globe, the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 is rising across the country, a trend health experts attribute to the Delta variant being more likely to infect children than the original Alpha strain.

Even though there are no signs of the third wave in India, the government needs to keep caution as the first to fall prey to this wave would be the younger generations who are still unvaccinated against the virus and no vaccine is expected for them till early 2022.