Govt urged to implement Covid SOPs

Public's careless attitude could be major cause to spread Covid-19

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Secretary General Dr Qaiser Sajjad on Monday urged the government for strict implementation of Covid-19 SOPs to stop spread of the virus. He said the people were continuously ignoring the precautionary measures against the deadly virus which could make cause to spread it at large scale. He urged that the government should adopt strict position for implementing SOPs against the pandemic of coronavirus, adding second wave of the deadly virus could be more dangerous as compared to first. Another expert of the pandemic diseases Dr Ahmed Mukhtar said coronavirus already existed in the country so everyone should adopt SOPs for containing it from spreading. He said unfortunately the people were not caring regarding the pandemic in these days so this attitude could be major cause to spread it.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6^th, 2020.