NCOC proposes: Educational institutions to open three days a week

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has advised that educational institutes be open three days a week in response to the growing COVID-19 Omicron outbreaks across the country.

The NCOC had its second significant meeting, during which the position of educational institutions was also assessed, and different ideas for increased restrictions were considered.

In addition, a suggestion to make schools in Islamabad available online for seven days was discussed at the meeting.

The NCOC conference was briefed on current testing in educational institutions, according to sources. It was decided to close educational institutions that did not follow the SOPs, with a focus on steps to ensure that students and teachers in educational institutions were vaccinated.

Pakistan confirmed ten deaths from new variant of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of positive cases to 1,333,521. The number of fatalities in the United States has risen to 29,029.

In the last 24 hours, 5,034 people tested positive for COVID-19, according to the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC).