Planning Minister Asad Umar has said that the government will seal areas that have been identified as the “hotspots” of the coronavirus.
During a press briefing Planning Minister Asad Umar said virus “hotspots” are now being identified through latest data and technology. He briefed the media on the measures that are being taken or are in the pipe based on data analysed by the National Command and Operation Centre.
Planning Minister Asad Umar has said that with the help of the data that has been gathered so far, the government will implement a “smart lockdown” to curb the spread of the disease. He repeated that the government could not impose an indefinite lockdown as it would have had a devastating effect on the low-income class. However, that does not mean that all preventive measures will be lifted, he clarified.
Planning Minister Asad Umar has urged people to continue taking preventive measures as it was “more important now than ever”. He cited the services of healthcare professionals, rescue workers, cleaners and other frontline workers and said that it was the responsibility of every citizen to follow precautions so that the virus spread would not get out of control.
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Efforts to create a web portal to collect data from across the country are underway, Planning Minister Asad Umar has said. Hospitals from all provinces and territories could feed data in the portal so that all the information can be collected in one place, he said.
Umar also congratulated the Punjab government for developing an app that can inform rescue services of the nearest hospitals if they pick up a suspected patient who is experiencing symptoms
