{"id":8399,"date":"2023-09-27T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/punjab-announces-holidays-for-schools-due-to-pink-eye-infection-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:19:04","slug":"punjab-announces-holidays-for-schools-due-to-pink-eye-infection-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/punjab-announces-holidays-for-schools-due-to-pink-eye-infection-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab announces holidays for schools due to Pink eye infection &#8211; Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1024017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024017\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1024017\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/07\/schools-to-remain-closed-in-islamabad-tomorrow-1638195014-8081.jpg\" alt=\"Rawalpindi announces two holidays for educational institutions\" width=\"596\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/07\/schools-to-remain-closed-in-islamabad-tomorrow-1638195014-8081.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/07\/schools-to-remain-closed-in-islamabad-tomorrow-1638195014-8081-768x463.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawalpindi announces two holidays for educational institutions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Punjab government has declared two-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasianmirror.com\/latest\/45159\/pink-eye-infection-punjab-announces-holidays-for-schools\/\">holidays<\/a> in all of the province\u2019s schools due to an increase in pink eye infection.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the province will have a long weekend because of Friday\u2019s Eid Milad un Nabi public holiday and the weekend\u2019s extended school closure.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Punjab government issued a warning to all of the province\u2019s schools about an increase in pink eye infections.<\/p>\n<p>According to a directive from the schools\u2019 education authority, schools must establish a \u201czero period\u201d to inform students about the infection and how to stop its spread.<\/p>\n<p>During the zero period, school teachers have been asked to explain the infection\u2019s causes and preventative measures.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab\u2019s Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department has issued a warning as the number of pink eye infections continues to rise in cities across the province. It usually takes eight to ten days to recover from the viral infection, which spreads through coughing, sneezing, and touching hands.<\/p>\n<p>Conjunctivitis is an epidemic in some areas of Pakistan as a result of a virus infection that causes thousands of patients to experience increased tear production, eye pain, redness, and itching.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi announces two holidays for educational institutions The Punjab government has declared two-day holidays in all of the province\u2019s schools due to an increase in pink eye infection. Students in the province will have a long weekend because of Friday\u2019s Eid Milad un Nabi public holiday and the weekend\u2019s extended school closure. Previously, the Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/07\/schools-to-remain-closed-in-islamabad-tomorrow-1638195014-8081.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}