New Delhi: Worried over the rising swine flu death toll, the Health Ministry has prepared a new set of guidelines for the schools.
According to the new guidelines, morning assembly meetings in the schools should be dispensed and each class teacher has to check each student for symptoms of the viral disease.
The guidelines are expected to be issued in a couple of days, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told a group of senior editors in the Capital on Monday.
Morning assembly in schools where students come in close contact could become a source for spread of the virus, Azad said.
“It is also being made mandatory for each teacher to go from seat to seat in the class to check for symptoms of flu, identify the student and immediately sent him or her back with the advice that they should stay at home for a week,” he said.
Azad also told a new vaccine is expected to be developed in the next five to seven months for which the World Health Organisation (WHO) has given the seed from Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control.
A new law was also being readied to replace the century-old Epedemic Act to include more pandemic diseases in its list to effectively deal with such situations, he said.
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