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Pakistan's largest city shuts schools for two weeks over COVID-19 fears

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Pakistan's southern province of Sindh extended the closure of all educational institutions following the confirmation of a second coronavirus case ...

Advertisement"The Sindh government has decided to keep the schools closed till March 13, so the isolation period of the suspect cases could be completed," Saeed Ghani, provincial education minister told Reuters on Monday."We don't want to take any risk."

Schools in Islamabad have remained open, but the thinly populated western province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran, closed its schools last week.Health Minister Zafar Mirza has said that the government is gradually allowing pilgrims to return from Iran, after holding them in quarantine at the border for 14 days.

Around 700 pilgrims arrived in Karachi from Iran over the weekend, the Sindh chief minister's office said in a statement.

 

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