The Karnataka government has proposed the ‘school bubble’ concept to mitigate the spread of the disease among children (aged below 18) attending offline classes at schools and pre-university colleges across the state.

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What are school bubbles?

• School bubbles are physical classifications made between groups comprising a small number of students.
• As per the concept, each such bubble will include students who tend to remain as a group during school hours throughout the term or an academic year.
• The concept would help managements easily isolate a fewer number of students in case anyone gets infected.
• For instance, a school bubble can include 30 students. If one among them gets infected, the others can self-isolate but the school need not be closed completely.
• This would allow uninterrupted learning to others as well.

Why are school bubbles significant?

• The concept of school bubbles, experts feel, will be more relevant to students studying in primary school or below.
• These students will have more chances of peer-to-peer interactions on a daily basis.
• With school bubbles in place, the risk assessment process to identify close contacts of a Covid-positive student will also get easier.

Is this concept completely new?

• This has been successfully implemented at schools in the United Kingdom.
• The government there has further relaxed social-distancing measures for students within a particular school bubble.
• However, all members of the bubble are mandatorily subjected to RT-PCR tests if a student is infected.

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