Our Correspondent
Peshawar/Abbottabad
As the 2nd wave of corona pandemic hit the globe the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has also beefed up preventive and precautionary measures especially at educational institutions to avoid closures. The timely and strictly implementation of COVID-19 SOPs kept the corona cases very low however in first two weeks of November the cases climbed to 1.75 percent from 1.22 percent, official data provided by Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa revealed.
It stated that until now 115 schools have been closed due to corona cases out of which 85 have been reopened after considerable improvement while 30 are still closed. The data said there are a total 43,745 public and private schools in the province including 35,488 public and 8,257 private schools, adding that 5,124,925 students are enrolled at government schools with 161,232 teaching staff, while the students’ strengthen private schools is 2,508,407 students and 111,663 teachers.
Commissioner Hazara division Riaz Khan Mehsud on Tuesday expressed concern over increasing cases of coronavirus across the division and presiding over a high level meeting requested the government to delay the polio vaccination drive. An official communiqué issued here he called for concentrating more on controlling corona cases and preparing for any emergency situation. The meeting was attended by all deputy commissioners of Hazara division, district health officers and representatives of line departments.
The meeting discussed in detail the recent update of corona and polio in the division. The officials of health department expressed fear due to decrease in the mercury level the corona cases could increase considerably.
