National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) head Asad Umar on Thursday announced that all educational institutions would start normal classes from October 11.
The planning and development minister made this announcement in a post shared on his official Twitter handle.
“Based on the reduced level of Covid disease spread and the launch of the school vaccination programme, it has been decided in today’s NCOC meeting to allow all educational institutions to start normal classes from October 11,” he said in a tweet.
Educational institutions were earlier operating on 50 percent capacity across the
country after they had reopened following intermittent closures due to the prevalence of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, the NCOC, in a statement, said that the country reported 1,453 cases in the last 24 hours, taking up the positivity ratio to 2.82 percent, while 46 people lost their lives to the virus.
The country has recorded as many as 1.25 million coronavirus cases, 28,032 deaths, and 1.18 million recoveries from the pandemic, the forum said.
The country has administered more than 87 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, with 31 million second doses and 62 million first doses, according to the data shared by the NCOC.
