Workers sanitise a classroom at a school
Highlights
- The West Bengal government said that schools for classes 8 to 12 will reopen in state from Feb 3.
- CM Mamata Banerjee said colleges, universities, polytechnic institutes will also reopen on same day.
- On Sunday, West Bengal's Covid caseload increased to 19,93,606 after 3,427 more people tested +ve.
The West Bengal government on Monday said that schools for classes 8 to 12 will reopen in the state from February 3 as the Covid-19 pandemic situation improved in the state.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said colleges, universities and polytechnic institutes will also reopen on that day. "We will decide on reopening primary schools later," she said. Banerjee said the COVID-19 situation in the state has improved a lot, because of which certain relaxations are being given.
On Sunday, West Bengal's Covid-19 caseload increased to 19,93,606 after 3,427 more people tested positive for the virus, 85 less than the previous day's figure, the health department said in a bulletin. The state had recorded 33 fresh coronavirus fatalities which pushed the death toll to 20,583. On Saturday, the number of new cases and deaths were 3,512 and 35 respectively.
Of the fresh fatalities, eight were recorded from Kolkata, followed by six in North 24 Parganas, five in Howrah and four in Hooghly districts, the bulletin said. It said 521 new Covid infections were reported from Kolkata and 373 from North 24 Parganas districts. The number of active cases was 31,562 down by 6,356 from the previous day.
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