20 new Covid-19 cases surface in Islamabad
A pulse oximeter is placed on the hand of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) positive patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sotiria hospital, in Athens, Greece, November 12, 2021. Picture taken November 12, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
Health officials on Sunday said that 20 new Coronavirus cases were reported in the federal capital during the last 24 hours.
According to an official of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), as many as 20 cases were reported on Saturday while 21 cases were reported on Friday. He said so far 107,467 cases were reported from the federal capital and 952 deaths were reported from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) while 106,211 patients had been recovered completely.
Meanwhile, on the direction of the Ministry of National Health Services, the district administration of Islamabad had continued surveillance of different areas of the capital to reduce transmission of the infection in the selected streets and other sectors.
They also started taking action on a violation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the coronavirus while visiting marriage halls, markets, and petrol pumps by its inspection teams. The administration had been asked to take action on the violation of SOPs at shops, workshops, and restaurants.
The inspection teams had been directed to issue notices to marriage halls besides imposing fines on owners of different shops in case of violation of SOPs. Commenting on the situation, an official of the Ministry of National Health Services said that several local-level administrative decisions were made to control the disease.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2021.