ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s top monitoring body on Monday decided to increaserestrictions on activities contributing to a sharp increase in coronaviruscases.
An update shared by the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) chiefand Minister for Planning Asad Umar stated that country’s top monitoringbody decided the future course of action to curb the recent spike in Covidcases.
The provincial and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administrations weredirected to tighten the implementation of SOPs and crack down onviolations, he revealed in a tweet.
Top health authorities warned as the third wave intensifies which is saidto be more lethal and dangerous. Many of the diagnosed cases, specificallyin the Punjab region, have the British mutated variant of the novel virus.
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Meanwhile, education and health ministers will also meet on Wednesday todecide the future course of action about the opening of educationalinstitutions.
On Saturday, NCOC Chief and Interior Minister refuted the complete lockdownrumors. Complete lockdown is not the solution as it is equivalent tostealing people’s livelihoods, he said while speaking in a news channel.
