Schools in Sindh will not reopen on June 1, according to a notification from the provincial education department on Friday. The official notification said the decision to close schools until June was taken earlier during the session of the Sindh Education Steering Committee on May 12.
"The steering committee decided to extend the closure of schools until June 1 due to coronavirus," it said.
On May 12, Sindh Minister for Education Saeed Ghani had said that schools might not reopen for another six months and a new online curriculum would soon be introduced. He said that schools in Sindh would not reopen on June 1 and that a new date would be notified later.