Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the health department to start random testing of people at grocery shops, vegetable shops so that local spread could be checked and contained accordingly.In a video message release from the chief minister House, Murad Ali Shah said that cases of local spread were increasing equally in urban and rural areas. He said that a villager who recently visited Hyderabad and got himself infected there. When he returned to his village he infected others, he said and added “we checked his 30 relatives/connections, of them nine were infected by him,” he deplored and added this was why he had decided to start random testing at grocery shops, vegetable shops and such other places where people go off and on. Murad Ali Shah said that random checking at grocery shops was aimed at checking the local spread and then take a new strategy to contain the virus further. “I have issued the directive and hoped that the people will cooperate with the field staff of our labs,” he said.
