Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Thursday lauded provinces for conducting highest number of over 42,000 tests for detecting the COVID-19. The meeting held on Thursday appreciated the provinces for achieving a single day record COVID detecting testing on Wednesday.
According to NCOC, record 42,299 tests were conducted across the country on Wednesday, including 18,360 in Sindh, 11,053 in Punjab, 4,627 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 6,149 in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), 1,333 in Balochistan, 216 in Gilgit Baltistan (GB), and 561 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
The NCOC reviewed at length the COVID situation in country and evaluated overall compliance level of pandemic spread prevention guidelines, standard operating procedure (SOPs) in educational institutes. The forum expressed satisfaction over COVID containment measures taken by the provinces, management of educational institutes and directed the provinces, school management to continue strictly following the guidelines to prevent the spread of pandemic. The meeting was attended by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan,high ranking officials and others.
Samples taken from teachers and students of Charsadda educational institutions showed on Thursday that two female and a male teaching staff of three schools have been reported infected with coronavirus, said District Health Officer Charsadda. Two female teachers and a male teacher from Harichand, Tangi and Shabqadar were found positive Covid-19.
Under the SOPs the affected teaching staff and students of their classes have been quarantined for five days to contain further spread of the virus. A lecturer of Government Girls Degree College Tangi was also found infected with coronavirus. Samples from students studying with the lecturer have been collected while the lecturer and students have been quarantined.
Since the pandemic outbreak, a total of 308,217 cases were detected so far, including AJK 2,591, Balochistan 14,765, GB 3,572, ICT 16,288, KP 37,470, Punjab 98,686 and Sindh 134,845. About 6,437 deaths were recorded in country since the eruption of the contagion, including 2,471 in Sindh.
