ISLAMABAD: Federal and provincial governments on Monday agreed on a combined policy to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
During a virtual meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan and attended by all the four chief ministers through video link, it was decided to combat the pandemic jointly and create a unified policy for the country.
During the meeting, the chief ministers presented their proposals while decisions will be announced tomorrow in the second round of the meeting. Moreover, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah suggested extension in the lockdown for another fourteen days.
He called for planning a national-level policy, adding that the federal government should give the province standard operating procedure (SOP)s about what business it wants to reopen.
During the previous NCC meeting, the prime minister said that the virus would not go way in two or three weeks but would continue for quite some time and the country.
He said that the federal government decided to open the construction sector from 14th April while the agriculture sector was already open, exempted from the lockdown.
The prime minister had also urged people to get themselves registered with the Corona Tigers Relief Force, which would have two main purposes including to help identify people who are desperately in need of help, and those who need to be placed under quarantine.
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