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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 Ikramullah, Finance Secretary Atif Rehman, Health Secretary, Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah, Secretary Elementa...

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 that the Covid-19 positivity ratio in the province had reached 12.7 per cent, double the national aver...

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 Karachi the detection rate was recorded at 26.32 percent on July 26. Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 ca...

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 essential services with minimum employees on duty. The staff will work from home, and no one will leave the ...

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 called for proper representation of the stakeholders in the task force. Gapsa claimed that private sc...