Shafqat discusses corona situation today August 4, 2021 Islamabad: The federal government has called a meeting of education ministers (Wednesday) to discuss the coronavirus-related situation in schools after the resumption of in-person learning in Islamabad and Punjab on Monday. The Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference will be chaired by Federal Minister for Education and Vocational Training Shafqat Mahmood and attended by the provincial, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir education ministers and the relevant senior officials via video link. According to the federal education ministry, the participants will discuss the start of the new academic session, reopening of schools in light of the current COVID-19 incidence, and vaccination of schoolteachers and other staff members.