School students attend classes by wearing safety mask amid rising cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the country.
Highlights
- All educational institutes will remain closed in Himachal Pradesh till Jan 26 as Covid cases rise.
- The state government's order said that all nursing colleges and medical colleges will remain open.
- Himachal Pradesh on Saturday recorded 728 fresh COVID-19 cases.
The Himachal Pradesh government on Saturday announced that all educational institutions will remain closed in the till January 26 in view of the rising cases of Covid-19 in the country.
The state government's order said that all nursing colleges and medical colleges will remain open.
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Himachal Pradesh on Saturday recorded 728 fresh COVID-19 cases, its biggest single-day jump in infections in the last several months, pushing the state's virus tally to 2,31,587, a health official said.
The death toll from the pandemic remained unchanged at 3,864 as no new fatality linked to the disease was reported on Saturday.
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