Ranchi: Instead of waiting for directives from the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), many schools have decided not to start offline classes from Monday. Following the directives of the Centre and the state, the schools had earlier agreed to conduct offline classes for senior students from the fresh session. But given the unprecedented surge in Covid cases, they have decided not to risk the health of students. Bishop Westcott group of schools has already circulated a message to the students to this effect informing that online classes will continue for Classes KG to X. Sixteen staff members of the group’s girls’ school in Namkom were found infected after a parent-teacher meeting in the second half of March.