Pervaiz Elahi for closing campuses amid rising corona cases
National
April 22, 2021
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Finance Committee meeting was held under chairmanship of Punjab Assembly Speaker Ch Pervaiz Elahi which approved annual budget of financial year 2021-22 of the assembly secretariat here on Wednesday.
Keeping in view dangerous surge in third wave of corona and increasing cases in the educational institutions, Ch Pervaiz Elahi said educational institutions and private educational academies should immediately be closed down.
“Corona is spreading among children very speedily. In a recent survey it was noticed that ratio of death of children due to corona has dangerously increased. If the country’s future has to be saved then we will have to save lives of our children and youth,” the speaker said.