Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister Murtaza Wahab addresses a press conference in Karachi on Monday. DawnNewsTV
Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister Murtaza Wahab said on Monday that the provincial government did not like placing restrictions and they were imposed only when the situation went out of control and Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) were violated.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi, Wahab said the positivity rate in Karachi and Hyderabad had increased, blaming it on SOPs violations and a lack of care. He said the provincial taskforce had supported the National Command and Operation Centre s decision to decrease restrictions from May 17 (today), however, if there was no improvement or reduction in the Covid-19 case numbers then we will have to take strict decisions.
Karachi: Pakistan has successfully utilised for the first time one of its power generation plants for generating oxygen for emergency treatment of coronavirus patients.
This was disclosed by Sindh Law and Environment Adviser, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, who also acts as the spokesman for the Sindh government, while addressing a press conference here on Monday.
Wahab said the Jamshoro Power Company Ltd in the province had modified its process of electrolysis to produce oxygen for medical use.
He said the power generation plant in the District Jamshoro of Sindh would produce 268,000 litres of oxygen for medical purposes. “This quantity of oxygen will be sufficient to treat coronavirus patients at the three public sector health facilities of Jamshoro and nearby Hyderabad.”
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Bee population has been dwindling over the past decade due to a variety of reasons, ranging from bacterial diseases to pesticides. File photo
“IT is so amazing what bees do,” said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam at the launch of the ‘Billion Tree Honey’ programme in Islamabad recently. “Bees have evolved to become the most efficient insects to pollinate plants and, in this task, they reign supreme,” the PM’s aide went on to say.
It all started in December last year when Mr Aslam’s ministry along with representatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Pir Mehr Ali Shah University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, pitched the idea of planting bee flora to Prime Minister Imran Khan. Realising the potential of bee farming and its significance, the prime minister gave his consent and a month later, a ceremony was held to officially launch the initiative under the ‘Prime Minister’s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami