The government has converted all public sector universities’ hostels into quarantine centres as an immediate arrangement for likely coronavirus patients as health authorities confirmed first COVID-19 case in the Punjab capital on Sunday.

A senior Higher Education Department (HED) official told Dawn that hostels were being vacated and cleaned as a precautionary measure to turn rooms into quarantine centres.

Universities have been told to clean all hostels and shift the belongings of students, if there were any, to store rooms after properly tagging them for identity.

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