
Highlights
- In Assam, the Kamrup metropolitan district closed schools until the 8th standard and in other districts until the 5th standard.
- Offline classes of students will rotate from the 9th to the 11th.
- Curfews introduced in the state.
The epidemic is once again spreading across the country. Cases of the new variant Omicron of Kovid-19 are also increasing rapidly. Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the state, the government of Assam on Friday tightened restrictions in a series of new COVID-19 guidelines to control the spread of the Omicron variant in the state. The chief minister of Assam, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, has also imposed a curfew in the state from 10pm to 6am.
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Assam School and College Guidelines
- Beginning tomorrow, January 8, all state and private schools through grade 5 in the state will remain closed until January 30. Schools in Guwahati remain closed to students up to and including group 8.
- Offline classes from grades 9 to 11 will rotate (3 days a week).
- Class 12, technical colleges, medical colleges and technical institutions will continue as before.
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Learn and what has changed
- People who have not been fully vaccinated will not be allowed to enter all government buildings, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, cinema halls, public places except hospitals from January 15.
- Those who are not fully vaccinated will be fined Rs 25,000 for entering hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and cinemas.
- Restaurants are allowed to work with fully vaccinated people at 100 percent seating capacity.
- Only fully vaccinated people are allowed to allow inter-district passenger transport.
- One cannot travel standing up.