Comprehensive plan made to cope with coronavirus: Zafar Mirza

Advisor on health says all steps taken to tackle any emergency situation

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza on Thursday said that a comprehensive plan has been made to cope with the novel coronavirus.

Chairing a meeting of Coronavirus Emergency Core Group in Islamabad, the advisor on health said he is personally monitoring the screening system at airports.

“All possible steps are being taken to deal with coronavirus and we are ready to tackle any emergency situation in this regard,” he added.

He said separate wards have been arranged at hospitals regarding possible cases of coronavirus.

Mirza further said the federal government has taken effective measures in collaboration with the provinces to handle coronavirus.

He said no case of coronavirus has yet been reported in Pakistan.

A Chinese national, suspected of having the novel coronavirus, was shifted to an isolation ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) from the Islamabad airport on Tuesday.

As flight operations between Pakistan and China resumed on Monday, sourced told The Express Tribune that a flight carrying 122 passengers from Beijing landed at the Islamabad airport earlier in the evening and during the screening one of the Chinese nationals, Bing Yang, detected with high-temperature, which is one of the symptoms of the deadly virus.