LAHORE: As the country fights off with all its might the third wave of the global pandemic which is increasingly concerning the governments with mutated variants and increased infection incidence, the higher education authorities in Punjab have Saturday shut down colleges in at least 25 districts across the province.
With the deteriorating infection situation into the third wave of the pandemic, the department decided to completely shut down all colleges falling in the remits of at least 25 districts.
The notification released to that effect said today the classes from 9- to 12 grades will be completely shut down in the mentioned districts with an immediate effect and indefinitely. Which means there will be no classes and exceptions at all.
The decision is taken for the districts with the rate of covid infection above 5 per cent, the notification read.
Districts including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Okara, Kasur, Toba Tek Singh, will have all its schools and colleges shut down until further orders, according to the above-posted notification.
Separately, the academic and official activities in the universities will continue as per the previous notification on them.
