LAHORE: The government Wednesday announced the government it would remove all remaining restrictions on the coronavirus in Pakistan, including mandatory self-control isolation for people with the disease, as the nation “has come close to eliminating the health crisis”.
Earlier this month, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) lifted nearly all restrictions related to the coronavirus, allowing schools, offices, restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and wedding halls will reopen.
Address a press conference in Islamabad, minister for Planning and development Asad Umar said the NCOC has decided to end the remaining restrictions.
However, the restrictions on the unvaccinated remain him would added.
The development came as the nation confirmed 493 new Cases of covid-19 over the last 24 hours showed NCOC data.
The NCOC, the department leading of the nation campaign against the pandemic, the number said of confirmed cases increased to 1.52 million while 1.47 million of they recovered.
Statistics March 16 22:
Total tests in Last 24 hours: 34,698
Positive cases: 493
% Positive: 1.42%
Deaths: 4
Patients on Intensive care: 567
– NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) March 16, 2022
The Covid-19 newspaper death toll has witnessed a downward trend as recently as four people succumbed to the virus on Tuesday, taking the total number of coronavirus deaths at 30,317, statistics say.
The active cases have also it dropped to 17,512 after 1,003 patients recovered on Tuesday. There are 567 patients in critical condition and are in treatment in intensive care unit in hospitals in all over the country.
Today, Umar noted that there was a consistency decrease in cases while the number of critical infections was the lowest since October 2020.
Furthermore, 87 percent of the eligible population at least he received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine while 70 percent have been fully vaccinated. The minister he cited vaccination rates as the reason behind the reduced knock down of the illness.
“We need a process of transition towards a normal life, ordinary because it seems in this moment that the pandemic will continue and become part of of our lives.”
Meanwhile, Sindh remains the most affected province of village in terms of the workload, with 572,555 infections, followed by Punjab, which reported 504,045 cases.
Umar said the government will continue to monitor the prevalence of the disease on a daily basis.
He also congratulated the nation for the way it faced a “very big challengeAnd implemented all instructions given by the federal response body.
“The government he couldn’t do it himself, which is why the NCOC was formed [and] all governments, in the Center and the Provinces, implemented and consulted together. The Pakistani army had a lot big role. All operational work of the NCOC was the responsibility of a special contingent of the army, “he said.
He also highlighted the role of health workers, in particular female sanitary ware personnel.
In his remarks, the minister of State for National Health Services Dr Faisal Sultan urged the nation to get vaccinated and continue to observe precautionary measures such as wearing masks, especially in congested places, a avoid another wave of COVID-19.
