Over 56,000 Pakistan schools shut over eye virus outbreak

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 29, 2023 12:20 am

LAHORE, Pakistan: More than 56,000 schools in Pakistan will shut for the rest of this week in a bid to curb a mass outbreak of a contagious eye virus, officials said on Wednesday.

Millions of students will stay home from Thursday after Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, announced blanket closures, having recorded 357,000 conjunctivitis cases since the start of the year.

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