More than 600 students test positive for Covid after schools reopen in Maharashtra’s Solapur

According to media reports, as many as 613 students have been tested positive in Maharashtra, Solapur district. Schools were reopened in July for classes 8 to 12. As the cases plunged, Maharashtra Minister of School Education Varsha Gaikwad had earlier this month allowed the schools in Covid-free zones to resume offline classes. The Minister had also mandated all teachers and staff members to be vaccinated before resuming physical classes. “Prior to the commencement of school, corona vaccination of all teachers and non-teaching staff in the respective schools should be done as a matter of priority,” she had Tweeted.