ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) held today to review the COVID-19 situation in the country. Furthermore, the implementation of SOPs also came under discussion.
Federal Minister for Planning and Development and head NCOC, Asad Umar chaired the meeting and urged the provincial authorities for ensuring the implementation of the SOPs.
The vaccination plan for Ramzan also came under discussion. The current restrictions will continue till April 13 and the next meeting of the NCOC will take place on Monday which will decide further actions keeping in mind the statistics and trends in the country.
On the other hand, Pakistan saw 100 more deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Most deaths were seen in the province of Punjab followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Furthermore, 5139 people tested positive.
According to the statistics, 88 patients were declared critical, increasing the total number of critical patients to 4,204.
The health facilities across the country conducted 49,069 coronavirus detection tests, taking the total number of COVID-19 tests to 10,688,894 since the first case was reported.