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Tamil Nadu schools to re-open on January 19 for class 10, 12

January 12, 2021, 12:38 PM

Karan Pareek | Chennai

The State of Tamil Nadu, on Tuesday, decided to re-open their schools from January 19 after being shut for nearly 10 months due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Only students of class 10 and 12 would be allowed on campus for revision of their board examinations, which, would be held in May 2021.
Confirming the same, Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami said, More than 95% of parents want us to re-open the schools. Keeping safety precautions in mind, we will allow only 25 students in one classroom. This decision was taken in favour of students, who will soon appear for their board exams.
He further stated that the COVID-19 cases were decreasing in all the districts of Tamil Nadu and hence it was now safe to re-open schools after being shut for more than 10 months.
Speaking on the safety precautions on campus, he said, Immunity boosting tablets will be given to all students and wearing masks will be made compulsory.”
“The temperature of students and teaching staff will be checked while entering and existing school campus, he added.
As of Monday, Tamil Nadu had 6,971 active cases, said Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.