Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed provincial ministers Imtiaz Shaikh and his relief team to get the required data from the federal government agencies such as NADRA and PDMA so that relief work could be started in the province. Shah was reviewing the overall efforts of the government to contain Coronavirus in the province here at CM House on Tuesday.
The chief minister held a meeting with his relief team comprising Imtiaz Shaikh, Saeed Ghani, Nasir Shah, Murtaza Wahab and Haris Gazdar and they told him that they were ready to start the relief work. “We have requested the federal government agencies such as NDMA and NADRA to provide the data” they brief the CM. “We are waiting for data so that work could be started,” they told the chief minister. The chief minister directed the chief secretary to coordinate with federal agencies and get the required data for launching relief work. THE Chief Minister said that the number Coronavirus cases has reached to 627, including 293 of local transmission while the number of cases on March 31 was 566. “This shows an increase of 61 cases during the last 24 hours. He said that there were 627 confirmed Coronavirus cases in Sindh, of them 272 or 43 percent were pilgrims, 62 or 10 percent have travel history and 293 or 47 percent were local transmission. He added that during the last 24 hours 57 cases of local transmission have been detected.
