Sindh health minister Azra Pechuho urges people to get vaccinated

She said COVID vaccination is mandatory for business communities, management and laborers

KARACHI (Dunya News) – Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho on Thursday urged the people not to believe in rumors and get vaccinated against coronavirus.

Addressing joint press conference with Provincial Minister for Local Government, Forest, Religious Affairs and Information, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah at Sindh Assembly building, she said that all the government/semi government/local government employees should get themselves vaccinated and salaries of those officials would be stopped who failed to get them vaccinated by the end of this month.

The provincial minister said that COVID vaccination is mandatory for the business communities, management and laborers of factories.

Azra said that the vaccination centres have been established in different areas of the province, adding that the vaccination centres have also been set up at all industrial areas.

Furthermore, the mobile vaccination centres were being established and people would be vaccinated at their homes, she reiterated.

All vehicles of district hospitals would also be used for vaccination, she said, adding that maximum number of vaccines would be administered. "We have given the target of 80 million dozes of vaccination and If people do not cooperate with us, we will have to make tough decisions," she warned.

The Provincial Task Force on Coronavirus holds the meeting every week to review the situation.

Complaints have been received against a Central District Government Hospitals  officials, she informed, adding that no decision has been taken for opening educational institutions in the province.

Speaking on the occasion, Provincial Minister for Local Government, Forest, Religious Affairs and Information, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah reiterated that if any civil servant does not get vaccinated, the salary of the civil servant will not be paid.

Lockdown 

Earlier today, addressing a ceremony at Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Provincial Minister Saeed Ghani said that following the improvement in the coronavirus situation across the province, Sindh government decided to ease the lockdown.

He said that the government will announce that the business will remain open till 8 pm in the next few days. He said that the provincial government had to impose restrictions on the markets but now we are moving towards opening things.

Saeed Ghani said that the coronavirus situation in Sindh is better and in the next couple of days, businesses will be allowed to open till 8 pm.

Sindh CM 

Previously, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while chairing a meeting of the provincial task force on coronavirus, directed the provinicial finance department not to issue the salaries for the month of July to the employees who don’t get vaccinated.

The meeting reviewed coronavirus situation in the province. The meeting was informed that 55 out of 26,812 people coming to Karachi from abroad were tested positive for coronavirus.

“On May 29, four passengers were diagnosed with the Indian variant. They came in contact with 14 other people, all of them are being tested,” the meeting was apprised.

The provincial task force on corona was further told that more than 1.5 million people had been vaccinated in Sindh till now. The Eastern District has reported the most corona positive cases. The Eastern District reported 20 deaths, 21% new cases of coronavirus from May 27 to June 2nd. Around 392 people succumbed to the deadly virus in Sindh last month.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Punjab government has also made it compulsory for its government employees and their families to get vaccinated till June 30.