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Vaccinate all teachers, but don’t cancel CBSE Board exams

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There are genuine safety concerns about the CBSE Board examination but its cancellation is no solution. Coronavirus is time-agnostic. People must learn to live with it. It’s a necessity, not a choice. Examination should be held with optimum safety protocol. The Centre must allow vaccination of teachers across age groups.

Poll rallies, Kumbh will carry Covid deeper into villages. India can’t afford lockdown again

With 1.2 million active cases and daily infections nearing 2 lakhs, it’s bizarre to have poll rallies and a full Kumbh Mela. The virus will travel deeper into villages and small towns. It’s a calamity we dodged with a debilitating lockdown in first wave. Now we are inviting it back.

India must not become next Brazil, bridging Sputnik-V, Johnson & Johnson trials irrational

With 1.2 million active cases and daily infections nearing 2 lakhs, it’s bizarre to have poll rallies and a full Kumbh Mela. The virus will travel deeper into villages and small towns. It’s a calamity we dodged with a debilitating lockdown in first wave. Now we are inviting it back.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Guys, Its a vaccine, not a drug/medicine to treat….After reading this you are suggesting that if teacher get vaccinated they will be fully safe from next day….it will take atleast 35-45 days from 1st dose of vaccine to have its effect.
    So dont write such a logics….instead ask center about its poor management of vaccine roll out

  2. कोई एग्जाम स्टूडेंट्स के जीवन से महत्व पूर्ण नही है लेकिन सीबीएसई और केंद्र सरकार को इसकी कोई चिंता नही है स्टूडेंट्स मरते है तो मरने दो यही रणनीति है ये लोग यह नही जानते की जो स्टूडेंट्स पेपर देने जायेगे उसके घर मोहले को भी मुसीबत में डालकर जाएगा

  3. And what about students? Shall we be left to die? India saw 1.7 lakh cases surge in a single day yesterday. There’s about to be lockdowns here. We’re not allowed to leave homes. But yes exams must be written regardless of whatever the repercussions may be. Right? Even if some students catch the pathogen and fall terribly ill or god forbid lose their lives, exams must be written yea? Is that only what we’re worth now?

  4. Not mounting the best governance response to the pandemic, resting on the finest medical / scientific advice, will cost lives and livelihoods. The Sensex has fallen 1,700 points today. Maharashtra’s lockdown will cost 40,000 crores. A drought of vaccines in the country that was supposed to be the pharmacy to the world. Health infrastructure – tragically, even crematoria – overwhelmed. We have had time since March, actually January, 2020 to prepare.

  5. One feels a little diffident to say this in New India, but permitting the Kumbh mela was an act of monumental stupidity. Not fair to blame the government alone, though. Each citizen taking a holy dip is there of her own volition. 2. Cutting / splicing the Bengal election into eight phases was the ECI’s masterstroke. One hopes they are seeing the size of crowds in rallies and road shows on their TV screens in Nirvachan Sadan.

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