All schools in Uttar Pradesh will be closed till May 15 while board exams for classes 10 and 12 have been postponed till May 20 in view of the rising COVID-19 cases, the state government said on Thursday.
The new dates for the board examinations will be decided in the first week of May, an official said.
The government also imposed an 8pm-7am curfew in 10 districts with more than 2,000 active COVID-19 cases with immediate effect.
The districts are in Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut and Gorakhpur.
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