{"id":130461,"date":"2021-09-01T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=130461"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:16:58","slug":"what-is-the-school-bubble-karnataka-has-proposed-for-its-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-school-bubble-karnataka-has-proposed-for-its-students\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the \u2018school bubble\u2019 Karnataka has proposed for its students?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the Article \u201c<\/span><b>What is the \u2018school bubble<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 31st August 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Covid-19 technical advisory committee (TAC) constituted by the Karnataka government has proposed the \u2018school bubble\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are school bubbles?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>School bubbles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are physical classifications made between groups comprising a small number of students.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>As per the concept, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">each such bubble will include students who tend to remain as a group during school hours throughout the term or an academic year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>For instance, a school bubble<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>Why are school bubbles significant?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The concept of school bubbles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Hence, with school bubbles in place,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the risk assessment process to identify close contacts of a Covid-positive student will also get easier.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Is this concept completely new?<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>No. This concept has already been implemented <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the United Kingdom. The UK government has relaxed social-distancing measures for students within a particular school bubble.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>However, all members of the bubble <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are mandatorily subjected to RT-PCR tests if a student is infected.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the Article \u201cWhat is the \u2018school bubble\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 31st August 2021. What is the News? The Covid-19 technical advisory committee (TAC) constituted by the Karnataka government has proposed the \u2018school bubble\u2019 concept to mitigate the spread of the disease among children (aged below 18)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-school-bubble-karnataka-has-proposed-for-its-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the \u2018school bubble\u2019 Karnataka has proposed for its students?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704754812},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}