Without any indications of a straightening bend in sight, the World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Pakistan to execute “irregular” lockdowns to contain the sharp ascent in Coronavirus cases that has come after the straightforwardness in lockdown limitations declared a month ago.
With 5,385 new cases-the greatest increment in a day-Pakistan’s Coronavirus cases have flooded past the 113,000 imprint. The nation’s loss of life has crossed the 2,250 imprint after 89 passings were accounted for in the previous 24 hours.
WHO delegate in Pakistan, Dr. Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala, in a letter to the Pakistani government said that Pakistan doesn’t meet any of the 6 pre-imperative conditions for opening the lockdown taking into account the present circumstance.
Dr. Mahipala has proposed the Pakistani government to practice irregular complete lockdown pattern of about fourteen days on and fourteen days off to stop the nearby transmission of COVID-19.
Reacting to the WHO letter, Dr. Zafar Mirza, Pakistan’s State Minister of Health, said that Pakistan has bit by bit however intentionally lifted the lockdown limitations while carefully authorizing SOPs out in the open spaces.
Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Punjab’s Health Minister, has said that the commonplace government has requested a crackdown against the violators of social removing SOPs.
