Odisha schools to reopen from Jan 8, frequent health check-ups to be conducted for COVID-19 While schools for classes 10 and 12 would reopen on January 8, colleges and universities for final years would reopen on January 11. Share Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 09:01 AM IST The Odisha government on Tuesday said frequent health check-ups would be conducted in educational institutions across the state for Covid-19 after the reopening of schools and colleges. Taking a review meeting, chief secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra asked the Health Department to undertake health check-ups in educational institutions and hostels as a preventive against any possible large breakout of the pandemic. While schools for classes 10 and 12 would reopen on January 8, colleges and universities for final years would reopen on January 11.