Gujarat students can study via regional TV channels amid school shutdown due to coronavirus
India TodayAs educational institutions remain closed in Gujarat due to coronavirus threat, the state government on Wednesday said students of Classes 7 to 9 and 11 will be able to revise and practice their subjects while sitting at home using regional TV channels in a daily hour- long tutorials starting on Thursday. A man, who returned from Nagpur and had close contact with a coronavirus positive patient, was admitted to an isolation ward of the government hospital in Surat and his sample sent for examination, they said. Amid the coronavirus scare, local transportation also took a severe hit, with city transportation services BRTS and AMTS reporting a drop in the number of daily commuters by around 95,000 in the last two days, the officials said. Amid countries shutting down borders to contain the coronavirus, around two dozen people from the state, who are among 43 Indians stranded at Warsaw Chopin Airport in Poland since last two days, appealed for help through a video on the social media after their flights were cancelled.