283 New Corona Cases Reported In Capital: NCOC

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 01, 2020 | 03:15 PM

National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on coronavirus Tuesday said that 283 new COVID-19 cases were reported from the federal capital during last 24 hours

ISLAMABAD (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Dec, 2020 ) :National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on coronavirus Tuesday said that 283 new COVID-19 cases were reported from the Federal capital during last 24 hours.

According to an official of NCOC, as many as 341 cases were reported on Monday while 355 cases were reported on Sunday.

He said so far 30,406 cases were reported from the federal capital while 318 deaths were reported from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). He added 24,143 patients had been recovered completely.

Meanwhile, on the direction of Ministry of National Health Services, the district administration of Islamabad had continued smart lockdown in different streets of the capital to reduce transmission of the infection in the selected streets and other sectors.

They also started taking actions on violation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related with the corona while visiting marriage halls, markets and petrol pumps along with its inspection teams. The administration also sealed schools, shops, workshop and restaurants over violation of SOPs.

The inspection teams also issued notices to marriage halls besides imposing fines on owners of different shops.

Commenting on the situation, an official of Ministry of National Health Services said several local level administrative decisions were made to control the disease.

He advised the citizens to continue following the social distancing, use of mask and other precautionary measures to stop increasing local transmission of COVID-19 in the city.

He said the government had adopted effective strategy to combat COVID-19 that resulted in reduction of corona cases in the country.

He said a strategy was made to control corona keeping in view the global information, focusing on data with integration of local data in a scientific way.

He said the ministry had also asked the schools administrations of the ICT to strictly monitor the SOPs to ensure protection of students from the COVID-19.