Contagion Keeping Students, Parents, Teachers On Tenterhooks Syed Samreen SRINAGAR: After staying on-line with vintage internet speed, students of classes 9 to 12 resumed physical mode of education on March 1. This time the resumption came with new norms, dictated by the invisible virus – masks, sanitisers, physical distancing. Entry to schools is subject to a welcome temperature check. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur The school re-opening is a first after August 5 2019, with a brief opening in February 2020, and a quick closure in wake of the pandemic dictated lock-down. The schools were shut on March 9, more than a week before the first positive case was detected in Srinagar, on March 18. As the cases surged across the country, the detection was followed by a nationwide pandemic lockdown on March 25. The lockdown compelled education to go virtual.