Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfikar Bukhari Tuesday said that it would be “foolish” to evacuate Pakistani students stuck in China till the situation on coronavirus remains unclear.
Talking to media persons on the evacuation of Pakistani students stuck in Chinese city of Wuhan to reporters after attending a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, the SAPM said Coronavirus situation was evolving daily, while citing the examples of cases reported in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. He also spoke about the number of quarantine days being changed every day for patients diagnosed with the disease.
“If we bring the kids and people back at once and keep them in quarantine for 14 days. And then we learn that three months of quarantine was required or this will spread, then who will be responsible,” Bukhari asked.
The SAPM said the government was closely monitoring the situation and would take a decision of evacuating the students in China.—INP
