School reopening framework 2020

Highlights

The Government of Nepal's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology released the guideline on “School reopening framework in the context of COVID-19” on 7 November 2020:

• Local governments can make decision on reopening/reclosing or keeping the schools closed based on the assessment of the risks involved for COVID transmission at local level.
• Before reopening the schools, local governments must coordinate with district COVID response management centre.
• For those schools which have been used as quarantine or isolation sites for COVID, they need to ensure implementation of standard public health security protocols recommended by Ministry of Health, including disinfection of the schools, before reopening the schools.
• Local governments can decide on running the schools in different modalities depending on the local situation, such as conducting all the classes in the school at the same time as in normal situation, or running classes in different times for different levels/grades in different shifts, or conducting classes only few days in a week, or only a few hours in a day etc.