<span style="color: #222222;">Delhi Schools has reopened for Nursery to Class 8 from today. In the first phase, classes from 9th to 12th were reopened in a hybrid mode both online and offline last Monday. In its guidelines, Delhi Disaster Management Authority, DDMA had asked schools for ensuring and monitoring proper cleaning and sanitation facilities in the school.<br />''<br />''Students, teachers and other staff must wear masks at all times and Social distancing is to be maintained at all times in the staff rooms.<br />''<br />''In Kerala, schools, Anganwadis and kindergartens reopen today after an interval of two years, as Covid-19 transmission has recorded a sharp decline.  Classes will be held in adherence to Covid-19 protocols.<br />''<br />''Regular classes for standard one to nine will be conducted from morning to noon in different batches till the 19th of this month. Regular classes for students upto 12th standard with full strength will restart from the 21st. Schools have been asked to function on all days except Sundays and public holidays.<br />''<br />''We spoke to  Samyukta Nair, a class nine student in Thiruvananthapuram as to how she feels like getting back to school after a long break:<br />''<br />''However, Anganwadis, creches and kindergartens will function only upto noon from Monday to Friday.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Kerala yesterday reported 11 thousand 136 positive cases while 32 thousand four people under treatment tested negative. Test Positivity Rate dropped to 18.4 percent.<br />''<br />''Besides 11 Covid deaths, 135 previously undocumented Covid fatalities were also added in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative toll to 62 thousand 199.<br />''<br />''Kerala's active cases have come down to one lakh 60 thousand 330.</span><br />