By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera 

Academic activities in remaining Grades in Government schools will resume next week, Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said yesterday.

He told Parliament that steps were taken to resume schools in stages after the country was reopened on October 1.
The Minister said schools were reopened after all the 240,000 teachers were vaccinated with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Primary sections and grades 10 to 13 in Government schools have already resumed academic activities and accordingly, Grades 6 to 9 will reopen 
next week.

• Schools were reopened after all the 240,000 teachers were vaccinated with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine