Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Affairs Dr Zafar Mirza said on Sunday that Pakistan Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) was providing medical supplies directly to the hospitals to deal with coronavirus pandemic.
"Details of all the supplies from the PDMA are uploaded on its website's supply section," he said while addressing news briefing in Islamabad on Sunday evening.
The special assistant said that they have provided the provincial authorities with over thousand addresses over suspicions that people living in there might have contracted the virus. "The provincial authorities will conduct tests of these people," he said.
Zafar Mirza said that overall 144,365 virus tests have been performed across the country with 6,218 performed during the last 24 hours. He said that the number of coronavirus patients soared to 12, 723 after a raise of 783 patients in last 24 hours.
"Overall 269 people succumbed to the virus while 2886 people have recovered from it," he said.
Giving a province wise break-down of the cases, Zafar Mirza said that 5378 people tested positive for the virus in Punjab, followed by 4232 in Sindh, 1793 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 722 in Balochistan, 235 in Islamabad, 308 in Gilgit Baltistan and 55 cases in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that 80 percent of the cases in Pakistan were from local transmission.
However, he said social distance and other precautionary measures besides a strict lockdown in the areas where coronavirus patients have been detected, could be possible for protection of the community living there.
To a question about political motives behind such conferences being held by doctors community, he rejected the perception of some elements in that regard. He appreciated the paramedical staff, doctors and nurses for playing front line role in treating the patients of this spreading virus around the world.
To another question, he said government in consultation with religious scholars and Ulema had permitted the administration in the mosques to follow standard operating procedure besides other precautionary steps given to them for safety and security of people visiting mosques to offer prayers.
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