Education Minister Dipu Moni says the government is making an all-out effort to create a safe school environment for students amid mounting fears over the spread of a highly-transmissible new strain of COVID-19, omicron. But at present, we are trying to ensure that our educational institutions are safe so that they cannot be linked to the spread of infection," she said. But as the dust began to settle on the devastation wreaked by the delta variant, scientists in South Africa discovered the omicron strain in November. Now that the vaccination campaign is in full swing, we will make every effort to vaccinate everyone and keep educational institutions open." Dipu Moni also urged the people not to pay any heed to the "rumours" on closing down educational institutions.

Source: bd News24 January 09, 2022 14:20 UTC