Government and private schools across Haryana will be reopened on 14 December, the School Education Directorate said in a circular on Thursday.
Physical lessons for students of classes 10 and 12 will take place every day for 3 hours (10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.), in compliance with the Covid-19 norms, the state government has told them.
“It has been determined that students in Classes 10 and 12 will be permitted to attend their government or private schools for three hours a day from 14 December—between 10 a.m. and 1 a.m..
Classes for senior schoolchildren, including grades 9 and 11, will commence from 21 December, it added.
The Haryana government also said that the students will have to produce medical certificates not older than 72 hours to attend classes.
Physical classes were banned since March this year by the Modi government to curb the spread of Covid-19 among students.
Schools and colleges have been taking online classes since March.
However, a few weeks ago, govt allowed states to decide if they wanted to resume physical classes.
Many states did not resume physical classes because of a sudden spike in the numbers of fresh coronavirus cases.
This comes as 26 more people succumbed to the Covid-19 virus in Haryana, taking the total death toll to 2,650 on Wednesday, while 1,400 fresh cases pushed the state’s infection tally to 2,48,079.
The new fatalities included eight from Faridabad, five from Hisar and three each from Gurugram and Jhajjar, the state health department’s daily bulletin said.
Among the districts which reported a big spike in new coronavirus cases included Gurugram (436) and Faridabad (218).
Haryana has an active coronavirus case count of 11,733 and a recovery rate of 94.20%, according to the bulletin.