The government has instructed the authorities concerned to commence the school enrolment process from today, but students in Dang district seem to be reluctant to go to schools that had once turned into quarantine facilities for COVID-19 suspected persons.

Although those schools were disinfected and readied for teaching-learning activities, both parents and students are reluctant, said Secondary School Centre, Tulsipur’s Principal Bhagawat Poudel.

With growing cases of COVID-19 in the country and lack of quarantine facilities, the government had, since May 23, decided to convert schools into quarantine facilities to house people suspected to have contracted the flu-like infection.

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