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PM Imran Khan calls meeting to review countrywide coronavirus situation
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Prime Minister Imran Khan. Photo: File.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a meeting of the National Coordinating Committee for Coronavirus on Friday, April 23 at 12pm to review the ongoing virus situation in the country.
According to sources, the decision was taken after the PM had a meeting with the Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar and the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Thursday.
In Friday s meeting, the chief ministers and chief secretaries of all the provinces will be in attendance and the session would review the countrywide coronavirus situation, sources said.
Number of critical Covid-19 patients shoots to its highest since Feb 2020 ISLAMABAD/
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The National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) on Sunday decided to impose a ban on inter-city transport on weekends – Saturdays and Sundays – as the country’s tally for critical Covid-19 patients reached 3,568, the highest the country has seen so far.
Sindh’s provincial government also decided to suspend physical classes from 1-8 grades in view of the raging third wave of the contagious disease that killed at least 81 more people mostly in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in the last 24 hours.
“Yesterday [April 3], there were 3,568 Covid patients in critical care in Pakistan. This is the highest number since Covid started,” said Minister for Planning Asad Umar, who also heads the NCOC, the country s nerve centre for Covid-19 response.
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ISLAMABAD: With 1,361 new Covid-19 cases and 64 deaths reported in 24 hours, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Thursday said that Pakistan had taken the pandemic as an opportunity to accelerate efforts aimed at strengthening the health system.
In the meantime, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) would now be able to engage in multidisciplinary activities regarding drugs, as the only Covid-19 vaccine tested in Pakistan, CanSino, has been officially registered in China.
According to data of the National Command and Operation Centre, 230 patients were on ventilators on Thursday across the country. And most deaths, 39, were reported from Punjab, followed by 14 from Sindh.