Private schools in Sharjah to begin 100% in-person learning by Oct.31
The Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA), in cooperation with the Crisis and Emergency Commitee in the Emirate of Sharjah, on Thursday has announced the mandatory face-to-face education for all students in Sharjah Private schools.
The return will be gradual with Oct.31,2021, being the deadline set for full return of face-toface education.
The Sharjah Private Education Authority has put in place the necessary plans and preparations, to ensure the full return of students to their classrooms, to engage in the real educational process, and to compensate them for any educational loss during the distance learning period, considering the return of students to schools as a joint responsibility by adhering to preventive measures, to ensure the continuity of atendance education.
It is noteworthy that the Sharjah Private Education Authority received the current academic year with extensive preparations, to resume in-person learning in light of a healthy and safe educational environment for educational cadres, students, and parents.
UAE CASES: The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) announced that it conducted 264,452 additional COVID-19 tests and detected 144 new coronavirus cases.
MOHAP also announced two deaths due to COVID-19 complications.
MOHAP also noted that an additional 221 individuals had fully recovered from COVID-19.
The Ministry also announced that 44,318 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the past 24 hours.
The total number of doses provided up to Thursday stands at 20,364,737 with a rate of vaccine distribution of 205.90 doses per 100 people.
INDIA OPENS FOR TOURISTS: The Ministry of Home Affairs ( MHA) of India will grant fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming to India by chartered flights from Oct.15.
The ministry also said that foreigners travelling to India by flights other than chartered aircrat will get the facility with effect from Nov.15.
The ministry said that all due protocols and norms relating to COVID-19, as notified by the Union Health Ministry from time to time, shall be adhered to by the foreign tourists, the carriers bringing them to India and all other stakeholders at the landing stations.
With this, the restrictions placed on visa and international travel stand further eased given the present overall COVID-19 situation.
India reported 22,431 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking its COVID-19 tally to 33.89 million cases, the federal health ministry said on Thursday.
The death toll rose by 318 to 449,856 data from the ministry showed.
SYDNEY’S FREEDOM DAY: Australia’s largest city will emerge from a 106-day lockdown on Monday, as Sydney authorities confirmed coronavirus vaccination targets had been met.
Stay-at-home orders will be lited for the Harbour City’s five-million-plus people now that 70 per cent of state residents over 16 have been double jabbed.
“The light at the end of the tunnel is now very, very close,” Prime Minister Scot Morrison said on Thursday, hailing the reopening announcement.
From Monday, pubs, restaurants and shops will throw open their shuters and welcome back the fully vaccinated.
Five-kilometre travel restrictions will also be lited, although state and international borders will remain closed for now.
The reopening -- described by many as “freedom day” -- is both “exciting” and “nerveracking” according to Alyce Murphy, general manager of The Carrington, a Sydney pub now hustling to get staff and deliveries back on site.
“Obviously going from doing nothing for months, and then the prospect of having a few weeks to get the venue there was a litle bit daunting,” she said. Murphy tried to fill the almost four-month lockdown with activities such as painting and gardening. But like millions of Australians, she “also just sat on the couch and watched TV a lot.”
FINLAND HALTS MODERNA JABS: Finnish health authorities said on Thursday they would stop giving Moderna’s Covid-19 jab to young men, following the example of Nordic neighbours, over fears of heart inflammation side effects.
The announcement comes ater neighbouring Sweden, Norway and Denmark announced similar adjustments to vaccine policies on Wednesday.
The countries cited reports of an increased risk of inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) and inflammation of the pericardium (pericarditis), especially for young men and in the weeks following the second dose.
“A Nordic study involving Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark has found that men who have received the Moderna Spikevax, men under 30 years of age, have a slightly higher risk than others of developing myocarditis,” Mika Salminen, director of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) told a press conference.
Salminen added that “most of these myocarditis cases are mild and transient, healing by themselves with a few days of follow-up, but there is a risk.”