On Tuesday, December 29, Mumbai’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated that all schools in Maharashtra are to remain closed till January 15, 2021, in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as per reports.
The BMC back in November decided to keep all schools across the city closed till December 31. However, the Maharashtra government had earlier allowed Classes 9 to 12 to reopen from November 23.
Meanwhile, Varsha Gaikwad, State Education Minister, took to Twitter stating that 9,127 Schools in Maharashtra reopened on Monday, November 23, in a safe environment as per SOPs. She further made a special mention for Amravati where all schools reopened. On the other hand, areas like Gadchiroli (92 per cent) Osmanabad (91 per cent) Satara (89 per cent) Solapur (87 per cent) Akola (86 per cent) Yavatmal (84 per cent) Latur (82 per cent) also witnessed a high number of school re-openings. Moreover, in 15 districts, the average number of school reopened was over 50 per cent.
On the other hand, on Tuesday, Maharashtra recorded 3,018 fresh cases of the coronavirus taking the COVID-19 tally in the state to 19,25,066. Moreover, 5,572 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, taking the tally of recovered persons to 18,20,021. Mumbai, meanwhile, reported 537 new cases during the day, which pushed its case count to 2,92,008 while the death toll in the state capital rose to 11,094 with six new fatalities. With 56,982 new samples tested, the number of coronavirus tests conducted in Maharashtra went up to 1,26,00,754.