Authorities have closed five schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after surging coronavirus cases in educational institutions on Wednesday. Peshawar district administration has closed four schools in the provincial capital city after upsurge of Covid-19 cases. “Three government and a private school have been shutdown for one week after cases of the disease surfaced”, district authorities said.
“Positive cases ratio in academic institutions of the province has soared to 2.8 percent,” officials said. Health authorities conducted 10,495 coronavirus tests in educational institutes in a week, district officials said. Covid positivity rate in Peshawar remained 27.99 percent sources at the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said.
Karachi continues to witness an alarming increase in daily Covid-19 cases during the fifth wave of the pandemic fueled by the Omicron variant of the virus.
