Declaring educational institutions a major source of the coronavirus transmission in general population, the World Health Organisation has expressed concern about the government’s failure to decide about school closures in light of the growing Covid-19 incidence in the country.

The WHO representatives based in Islamabad told Dawn that the Covid-19 positivity in general population would increase if the educational institutions saw more and more staff members and students test positive for the virus.

They said schools needed to be closed to decrease the incidence of coronavirus incidence as most of the infected cases reported in educational institutions were young and were safe from complications but were infection carriers and had the potential to affect people in their families and communities.

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