685 Fresh Covid-19 Cases Reported In Capital
Sumaira FH Published January 26, 2022 | 09:05 PM
Health officials on Wednesday said that 685 new Coronavirus cases were reported in the federal capital during the last 24 hours
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Jan, 2022 ) :Health officials on Wednesday said that 685 new Coronavirus cases were reported in the Federal capital during the last 24 hours.
According to an official of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), as many as 1,836 cases were reported on Tuesday while 856 cases were reported on Monday.
He said so far 120,813 cases were reported from the federal capital and 979 deaths were reported from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) while 109,409 patients had been recovered completely.
Meanwhile, the government has waived off the booster shorts fee for those visiting abroad, and now they can get free booster while showing their documents. This booster was already free for the general public.
On the direction of the Ministry of National Health Services, the district administration of Islamabad had continued surveillance of different areas of the capital to reduce transmission of the infection in the selected streets and other sectors.
They also started taking action on a violation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the coronavirus while visiting marriage halls, markets, and petrol pumps by its inspection teams.
The administration had been asked to take action on the violation of SOPs at shops, workshops, and restaurants.
The inspection teams had been directed to issue notices to marriage halls besides imposing fines on owners of different shops in case of violation of SOPs.
Commenting on the situation, an official of the Ministry of National Health Services said that several local-level administrative decisions were made to control the disease.
He advised the citizens to continue to follow the social distancing, use of masks, and other precautionary measures to stop the increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the city.
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