Primary schools in Odisha not to reopen from January 3, 2022

Bhubaneswar: Primary schools in Odisha will not reopen from January 3, 2022 as the State Government today withheld the decision due to the sudden rise in COVID-19 cases.

The government had earlier made an announcement regarding reopening of schools for students of classes 1 to 5.

Later, concerned officials visited various primary schools across the state and held discussion with those associated with the educational institutions.

Considering the sharp spike in daily COVID-19 cases in the state during the last two days and the safety of the school students, the government has decided to postpone the reopening of primary schools.

However, offline classes for students of classes 6 to 10 will continue at schools.

Notably, Odisha today registered a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases as 424 more persons, including 67 children below 18 years of age, tested positive for the virus during the last 24 hours. The daily COVID-19 cases figure was 298 yesterday.

Out of the 424 cases, 249 were detected in quarantine while 175 are local contact cases.

Khurda district reported highest 177 new cases, followed by Cuttack (45) and Sundargarh (38).

The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) for the day stood at 0.68% as 61,652 samples were tested in the state.

With this, the COVID-19 tally in the state reached 1055556 with 2078 active cases.

Below are district-wie figures of fresh infections.

1. Balasore: 8
2. Bargarh: 10
3. Balangir: 1
4. Boudh: 1
5. Cuttack: 45
6. Dhenkanal: 3
7. Ganjam: 4
8. Jagatsinghpur: 8
9. Jajpur: 9
10. Jharsuguda: 15
11. Kalahandi: 2
12. Kendrapara: 1
13. Keonjhar: 14
14. Khurda: 177
15. Mayurbhanj: 8
16. Nabarangpur: 7
17. Puri: 14
18. Rayagada: 4
19. Sambalpur: 15
20. Sundargarh: 38
21. State Pool: 40