Staff Reporter
Peshawar
A meeting of the Provincial Task Force on COVID-19 was held here Friday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.
The meeting reviewed in detail the latest coronavirus situation across the province and implementation status of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the markets and shops opened in the light of the decision made in the last meeting of National Coordination Committee.
The forum made a threadbare discussion and consultation on various options for future course of action in this regard. The meeting, while expressing its serious concern on the non-implementation of SOPs and overcrowding in some of the markets and shopping malls stressed the need of strict implementation of those SOPs and directed the quarters concerned to engage the representative bodies of traders to play their role in this regard.
The task force decided that implementation of SOPs in those markets would closely be monitored during next couple of days and in case of non-compliance the entire market would be sealed instead of sealing individual shops.
Provincial Ministers Taimur Salim Jhagra, Shaukat Yousafzi and Advisor to CM Ajmal Wazir, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt. Gen. Nauman Mahmood, Chief Secretary Dr. Kazim Niaz, Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abassi and other high ups of concerned civil and military authorities attended the meeting.—APP
