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Students will also be made to follow strict Covid-19 health guidelines. The school principals have been advised not to conduct term tests or to have students participating in extracurricular activities despite the re-opening of schools.

Sri Lanka will re-open its schools in a phased manner from Monday after keeping them closed for 115 days due to the lockdown imposed in the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Ministry of Education said on Sunday.

The schools were closed mid-March when Sri Lanka distinguished its first Covid-19 disease.

Ranjith Chandrasekera, the extra secretary to the service, said understudies from Grades 5, 11, and 13 will continue schooling on Monday.

There will be broadened hours for Grade 13 understudies with school shutting time reached out until 3.30 pm from normal 1.30 pm conclusion.

In the following stage, understudies of Grades 12 and 10 will return on July 20. The understudies of Grades 3,4,6,7,8 and 9 would return on July 27. The last stage would be on August 10 when Grades 1 and 2 would restore, the authority said.

“Guardians are carefully exhorted not to send kids to schools in the event that they are having fever, hack, and influenza,” Chandrasekera said.

He said understudies were not expected to wear face covers when in school however should wear them when they travel to school and back.

They will likewise be made to follow exacting Covid-19 wellbeing rules.

The school directors have been prompted not to lead term tests or to have understudies taking an interest in extracurricular exercises regardless of the re-opening of schools.

The instructors and non-scholastic staff had come back to schools a week ago to get ready for understudies’ arrival while getting underway wellbeing rules.

Sri Lanka finished its Covid-19 lockdown in stages after it was forced in May.

A month ago, the Sri Lankan government totally lifted the check-in time forced to contain the spread of the coronavirus after no new instance of network contamination was recorded for almost two months in the nation.

Sri Lanka had been under a nonstop lockdown since March 20, seven days after the primary instance of the pandemic was accounted for. At first, across the nation cover, check-in time was forced yet it was later facilitated for around 66% of the nation and was for the most part kept to evening time. The island country recorded more than 2,000 Covid-19 positive cases with only 11 passings. Since April 30, no cases from inside the neighborhood networks have been accounted for, as indicated by the wellbeing authorities.

Sri Lanka is set to hold parliamentary political decision on August 5 which was additionally deferred twice because of the Covid-19 pandemic.