Govt prepares SOPs for reopening of schools in Punjab

Lahore: The Punjab Education Department has prepared a standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the reopening of educational institutions in the province.

The educational institutes will be allowed to reopen with SOPs to ensure the safety of students and teachers. According to the SOPs, a maximum of 20 students will be allowed in a class and two students will sit on each disk. However, schools will lower the capacity and operate in two shifts.

It will be compulsory for the schools to arrange sanitizes for the students from their own budget. The temperature of each student and school staff member and teachers will be checked while entering the educational facility.

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As per the SOPS, there will complete ban on any type of function, ceremony, and break in the schools. A new study has shown that children under the age of five have between 10 to 100 times greater levels of the genetic material of the coronavirus in their noses compared to older children and adults.

This meant that young children might be important drivers of COVID-19 transmission within communities – a suggestion at odds with the current prevailing narrative.