Punjab schools show high surge in Covid cases

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The Covid-19 infection is spreading at an ‘alarming’ rate in government schools all over Punjab.

An official report unveiled that 1,004 schoolchildren of nursery to matriculation class tested positive for the virus during the last two months with a higher percentage than reported during the first wave of the infection in Punjab.

According to the report, hundreds of health teams were dispatched by the Punjab government to the government schools across the province where 317,918 children underwent testing procedures.

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