Dr Manjunath the Advisor to Karnataka government on COVID-19, suggested not reopen schools at least for two weeks.Dr Manjunath who is the Director of Jayadev  Hospital at Bengaluru said the virus spreading day after day at neighboring Kerala and Maharashtra, the state was also expected the third wave, reoprning of schools during such situation was nothing but the drastic step putting the lives of the children to risk.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has also said that there was no proposal to start schools now with rise in the virus in neighboring states. The private school associations earlier Informed about reopening the schools from Aug 2 and later cancelled.