Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said that Pakistan cannot afford any lapse in ensuring protective measures to ward off the threat of coronavirus.

He said this while speaking to chief secretary Jawwad Rafique Malik, Ulema belonging to different schools of thought, Universities' Vice-Chancellors and a delegation of traders, who called on him at Governor's House on Tuesday.

The Chief Secretary briefed the governor about measures to control the spread of coronavirus and action against the hoarders. The Governor said the hoarders, busy hoarding essential items during Ramazan, deserved no sympathy and stressed that the government functionaries should take strict action against all such elements.

The Governor said that the Prime Minister Imran Khan had set an example of serving poor and needy in these testing times and added that these relief activities would continue till the coronavirus pandemic would subside.