Authorities in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district ordered the closure of a school in the Sopore area for one week on Saturday after three of its teachers tested positive for COVID-19.
According to some news agency Additional Deputy Commissioner Sopore Parvaiz Sajad Ganai saying the school shall remain shut for teachers and students for a week as a precautionary measure to contain further disease spread.
Pertinently, amid rising number of COVID-19 cases lately, the government on Friday authorised Deputy Commissioners to take call on keeping open or closing the schools in respective districts amid a surge in infections in the union territory.
