ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to keep in-person classes for students in grades one to eight suspended until April 28 in Covid-19 hotspots. Meanwhile, Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani said that academic activities will be resumed from April 22 across the province. The district administration has the power to make its own decisions after witnessing a rise in coronavirus cases. The education minister said that the positivity rate of Covid-19 cases in educational institutions stands at 2.6 per cent. The country reported 3,953 new coronavirus cases and 103 deaths on Tuesday, which took the tally to 696,184 and the death toll to 14,924.

Source: Pakistan Today April 06, 2021 05:33 UTC