Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announces closure of schools in 10 districts till April 11

• KP on Wednesday has announced the closure of schools in ten districts.
  
• The districts include Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, Swabi, Kohat, Malakand among others.
• The government has decided that the educational institutions will remain closed in the selected districts including Islamabad till April 11.
  

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Wednesday has announced the closure of schools in ten districts including Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, Swabi, Kohat, and Malakand, among others after the government decided to tighten the restrictions amid a surge in virus cases.

KP minister Shahram Khan Tarakai, in a tweet, said that the restrictions will be in place till April 11. “Ten KP districts, including Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, Swabi, Kohat, Malakand, Swat, Lower Dir, Nowshera, and Buner, will remain closed due to increasing cases of coronavirus cases till April 11, 2021,” he wrote on Twitter.

The government has decided that the educational institutions will remain closed in the selected districts including Islamabad till April 11 due to the rising cases of coronavirus.

A decision to this effect was taken at a joint meeting of education and health ministers headed by the Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood in Islamabad today.

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Later, while briefing media persons, the education minister said that keeping in view the coronavirus situation, the provincial governments will decide the districts where the educational institutions will remain closed.

Shafqat Mahmood said that the coronavirus situation is very serious in certain districts of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Kashmir. However, the intensity of the virus is relatively less in Sindh, Balochistan, and Gilgit Baltistan.

The education minister recalled that earlier the educational institutions were closed from 15th to 28th March in some districts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as the federal capital in the light of the spike in Covid-19 cases.