High rate of COVID-19 recoveries witnessed in Meghalaya

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Shillong, Nov 2: Meghalaya has been witnessing a high rate of recoveries of COVID-19 in the past few weeks.
Even on Monday, the state has recorded 117 recoveries of COVID-19, pushing the total recoveries to over 8,500 .
Director of Health Services (MI), Dr Aman War said that 83 persons were declared recovered in East Khasi Hills district, 14 Ri Bhoi district, 8 South Garo Hills district, 5 West Garo Hills district, 5 West Jaintia Hills district, 1 East Jaintia Hills district and 1 North Garo Hills district.
Meanwhile, the state recorded 71 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Monday. Of the 71 new cases detected, Dr War said 36 are in West Jaintia Hills, 29 East Khasi Hills, 2 Ri Bhoi, 2 West Garo Hills, 1 East Garo Hills and 1 North Garo Hills.
The state has detected a total of 9,678 COVID-19 out of which 1,009 are active cases, 8,579 recovered and 90 deaths.
With the high recovery rate in the past few weeks, positive cases of COVID-19 in East Khasi Hills district have reduced to 327 that include 24 Armed Forces and Paramilitary Forces and 303 civilians.
However, districts like Ri Bhoi have been witnessing a surge in the number of positive cases of COVID-19 at 258, followed by West Garo Hills 159 and West Jaintia Hills 101.
Cases in East Garo Hills have also increased to 58 and West Khasi Hills to 51 while those with the least cases include East Jaintia Hills 21, North Garo Hills 16, South Garo Hills 9, South West Garo Hills 6 and South West Khasi Hills 3.
“Till date, swab samples of 2,03,556 persons have been tested of which 1,93,878 were found negative,” the senior medical official said.
There are 54,244 entrants from outside the state.
Meghalaya Govt to take decision after November 5 regarding reopening (or not) of educational institutions
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SHILLONG, Nov 2: Meghalaya Education minister, Lahkmen Rymbui has said the state government will take a decision regarding the reopening of schools and other educational institutions in the state after November 5.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, the minister said that regular class activities for schools and other educational institutions will continue to remain closed until further orders.
“Decision on resuming normal class activities and other issues will be known only after November 5,” he informed.
Whether the government has received feedback from all stakeholders on the matter, the minister said that the department has done its homework and that is why the consultation is still ongoing.
“The views given (so far) are very diverse in nature. But what is important is that whatever decision we will take, it will be for the larger interest of the students in terms of education as well as health safety,” he said.
It may be mentioned here that the state government had only allowed partial opening of schools for teacher-student counseling. Students from classes VI and above are only allowed to visit their respective schools and institutions based on the consent of their parents.
Asked if the selection test for class X students will be held this year, Rymbui however informed that a meeting of the Education department and the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBoSE) will discuss matters related to the issue on November 5.
“Whether selection test will be there and if not, what steps will be taken – all these instructions will be given after this meeting,” he added.