PM appeals masses to follow the anti-Covid SOPs
Pakistan
PM appeals masses to follow the anti-Covid SOPs
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appealed the masses to follow the anti-Covid Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) amid surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
He said this while presiding over a meeting to discuss the coronavirus situation. Federal minister Abdul Qadir Patel, Rana Sanaullah, Sherry Rehman, National Disaster Management Authority chairman, federal secretaries of information and national health services, and other senior officers attended the meeting.
The chief secretaries of all four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan also attended the meeting through video link. The meeting was given detailed briefing on coronavirus situation in Pakistan and across the world. It was told that overall a downward trend was being observed in the number of cases across the world.
The participants were told that the new variant of the Omicron led to a recent surge in coronavirus cases in the country. On June 28, over 3% cases were reported in the country on June 28, though the ratio of hospitalization in this variant was lesser than that of the previous waves.
The health authorities told the meeting that 86% of above 12 years population had been fully vaccinated while 93 percent got at least single shot. Currently, the country’s capacity was to vaccinate around 200,000 people per day.
It was told that the entire Sindh population had been fully vaccinated while the vaccination process was underway in Punjab and other provinces. Moreover, the steps were being taken to strictly monitor the movement of people on border and Pass Track APP was also being improved to make it easier to use.
During the meeting, he said that the frontline health workers and doctors had rendered numerous sacrifices to keep the countrymen safe from the disease and also paid tribute to them.
Therefore, he urged the people not to squander the success achieved against the coronavirus.
The prime minister directed the chief secretaries of the provinces to ensure implementation of the SOPs at crowded places, besides enforcing full vaccination, booster doses, use of masks and sanitizers.
He also called for use of masks and sanitizers at the cattle markets set up ahead of Eidul Azha, weddings and other private gatherings.
The prime minister said the adherence to the SOPs was inevitable for the safety of one’s own as well as the dear ones. He said the performance of all institutions particularly the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) had been laudable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
