No student or staff should be allowed entry into school premises without thermal scanning and if any of them tests COVID positive, the institute's authorities must take appropriate quarantine measures, according to Delhi government guidelines for schools.
The guidelines were issued in the wake of a spike in coronavirus patients in the city that on Thursday logged 965 cases, 1,009 on Wednesday, 632 on Tuesday and 501 on Monday.
Schools have also been advised to ask students to not share lunch and stationery items, the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the city government stated.