Sindh urges ban on inter-provincial transport as 11 more patients died
PM allowed Sindh to procure vaccine directly
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the detection rate of coronavirus was lower in Sindh than the other province during the last one month but now it has started hitting new highs because the inter-provincial transport was allowed to operate.
“Now, we may have to take strict actions, including imposing lock down to save our people.” This he said while participating, through video link, in the National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting held under Prime Minister Imran Khan at PM House Islamabad.
The chief minister said that the COVID-19 detection ratio in Karachi was and Hyderabad has increased to 16.64 percent in Hyderabad, 8.93 percent in Karachi and 5.64 percent in rest of the province. “We would have to take strong decisions, otherwise the situation would go out of control,” he said.
Mr Shah said that had the government decided to impose a ban on inter-provincial and inter-city transport as was suggested by him on March 31, the situation would have been under control in Sindh.
He added that it was time to take some strong decisions to ban inter-city transport, strict vigilance at airports, imposing lock down in the districts where cases were on the rise, declare vaccination mandatory for doctors, policemen and strict administration and allow the provinces, particularly Sindh to procure vaccines directly.
The prime minister allowed the Sindh government to purchase vaccines.
Earlier, the chief minister chaired the Coronavirus Taskforce in which the recommendations for the NCC meeting were firmed up.
The meeting had decided to procure corona vaccine in bulk and store it at Down University, Ojha Campus.
Situation report:
11 more patients of COVID-19 died overnight lifting the death toll to 4587 that constituted 1.7 percent death rate.
12,786 tests were conducted overnight which detected 855 cases that constituted 6.6 percent detection rate.
So far 3,537,283 tests have been conducted against which eight percent or 276,669 cases were detected.
