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July 28, 2021 PESHAWAR: Chief Secretary Kazim Niaz has called for a specific strategy to track missed children in high-risk districts to help ensure polio vaccination to all target children under the age of five. He said this while addressing the Provincial Task Force meeting on Polio Eradication here Tuesday. Finance Minister of Taimur Salim Jhagra, Chairperson, Provincial Assembly Standing Committee on Health, Rabia Basri, TAG Chairman, Jean Mark, IGP Moazzam Jah Ansari, Secretary Home Ikram...

Sindh clamps down on movement after 6pm amid Covid surge Ag APP KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: As the Delta strain drove a new surge of Covid infections in Pakistan, with Sindh being a hotspot of late with more than a fourth of tests turning up positive in Karachi, the provincial authorities have banned unnecessary night-time movement. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah issued the directives to ban unnecessary movement after 6pm in a meeting of the Provincial Task Force on Tuesday after it was briefed th...

By News Desk KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Terming the COVID-19 situation in Karachi as alarming, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the IGP Sindh and Commissioner to ensure timely closure of all the businesses by 6 in the evening and constituted a ministerial committee to sensitise all the stakeholders, including shopkeepers, traders, transporters and politicians to cooperate with the government in the supreme interest of the public health, otherwise nothing will remain under control. In K...

New curbs on employees of govt offices, schools notified in Sindh July 28, 2021 The Sindh home department has issued three notifications of restrictions in government offices in view of the rising number of positive Covid-19 cases in the province. A notification reads, “In the wake of a consistent increase in positivity ratio of Covid-19 cases, the following directions are issued with immediate effect: All the departments and offices of government of Sindh will remain closed except essentia...

Call for starting schools’ academic session on August 2 July 27, 2021 The Grand Alliance of Private Schools Association (Gapsa) has demanded that the Sindh School Education & Literacy Department start the new academic session on August 2, in accordance with the decision taken during the last meeting of the department’s steering committee. In its charter of demands, Gapsa has suggested that the Provincial Task Force on Covid-19 allow reopening schools with 50 per cent attendance. It also c...

Published July 25, 2021, 9:29 AM Even without a reported case of the highly contagious Delta variant in the province of Bulacan, Gov. Daniel Fernando directed the Provincial Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to intensify efforts in the prevention, detection and treatment of cases. “We are discussing today our preparation for the Delta variant, which we need to be overacting. We need to be on guard because it is more important to be prompt than to be diligent. We do not need to prolong it. It is h...

Private school associations reject decision to shut educational institutions July 24, 2021 Rejecting the Sindh government’s decision to keep the schools and colleges closed in the province from Monday, July 26 in view of the rising Covid-19 cases in the province, associations of private schools have decided to convene on Monday to announce their future course of action. In a high-level meeting on Friday, the provincial government decided to have the schools and colleges in Sindh closed from...

July 24, 2021 KARACHI: The Sindh chief minister Friday announced to shut down dining at restaurants and marriage halls, close shrines, recreational spots and educational institutions, except those where examinations are taking place and reduced business timings of markets/shops from 6am to 6pm from Monday. CM Murad Ali Shah took the decision following the recommendations from Provincial Taskforce on Covid-19. The situation prompted the provincial government to send an SOS signal to the Nationa...

Delta variant accounts for 92pc Covid cases in Karachi File photo Health authorities have started reserving more beds, wards and human resources at two major tertiary-care hospitals in Karachi to deal with the growing number of Covid-19 cases, as the positivity rate due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, which accounts for 92 per cent of the infection cases in the city, has jumped to 23.32 per cent. “A surgical ward comprising 48 beds is being converted into a ...

Delta variant spreading like ‘wildfire’ in Karachi; more restrictions on the cards By Provincial Task Force to meet today to review the pandemic situation. Sindh government has started taking precautionary measures to meet the challenge. KARACHI: The provincial government is likely to take strict measures in the metropolis to curb the fast spread of the Delta variant, which now accounts for 92% of the infection cases, with the positivity ratio exceeding 23%. An official of the Sindh Health...