The licenses of 25 private schools in Karachi that were open on Monday — in spite of the Sindh government’s instructions a day prior to shut considering the coronavirus flare-up — have been suspended.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, while managing a gathering of the Task Force on coronavirus in Karachi on Sunday, had requested to keep every educational institute, including tuition and training centers and academies, over the region shut till March 13 — the cutoff time for consummation of the segregation time of patients suspected of having coronavirus.
An official statement gave by the chief general for private organizations of the provincial education, Dr Mansoob Hussain Siddiqui, said that an assessment was done in parts of the city, including Korangi, Landhi, Gulshan-e-Hadid, Nazimabad and North Karachi, and around 25 private schools were open.
The CM had said severe move would be made against those institutions who opposed the order, which was significant in the hours of a crisis.
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