Coronavirus: Education Secretary asks schools to raise awareness
Team Careers360 | March 4, 2020 | 08:08 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: The secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Amit Khare, on Wednesday asked schools to “create awareness among students” and teach “preventive interventions” to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Central Board of Secondary Education ( CBSE) has issued a notice on late Monday allowing students to take sanitizers and face masks inside the exam halls.
In a letter addressed to the chief secretaries of all states and the chairperson of the CBSE, Khare said that “creating awareness among general public is extremely important to prevent/reduce transmission of the novel coronavirus.”
Khare has asked schools to teach preventive interventions such as frequent handwash, use of handkerchiefs, avoiding public gatherings, etc.
Khare also noted that informed youth can help in disseminating the information among their family and community.
By Wednesday, five schools in Delhi- NCR were shut down after 40 students of a school in Noida were placed in isolation on Tuesday.
They had come into contact with a patient who later tested positive for CoVID-19.
CoVID-19 is the disease caused by coronavirus.
So far, 28 positive cases have been reported in India, which includes three recovered patients in Kerala.
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