Delhi school teachers to be on airport COVID duty during winter vacation

Delhi school teachers to be on airport COVID duty during winter vacation

At least 85 teachers of various government schools in Delhi will be on duty.

new Delhi:

Several Delhi government school teachers will be deployed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport during the coming winter vacation to ensure that people follow COVID-appropriate protocols, officials said on Monday.

The District Magistrate (West) has issued this order on behalf of the District Disaster Management Authority.

The order states that at least 85 teachers of various government schools in Delhi will be on duty from December 31 to January 15.

Government schools will remain closed in Delhi from January 1 to January 15 due to winter vacations.

Delhi officials on Monday started visiting all government hospitals to ascertain their preparedness to deal with any eventuality in view of the surge in Covid cases in some countries.

Last week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that the new Omicron sub-variant BF.7 of the coronavirus, which is causing a surge in cases in some countries, had not been detected in Delhi till then and that his government was fully prepared to deal with it. . Any event.

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