CORONA VIRUS IN PAKISTAN: THREAT OF 4TH WAVE




Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday informed that the country could be hit by a fourth Covid-19 wave in July if the quality operating procedures (SOPs) weren't followed to.
In a tweet, Mr. Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), said: “Appraised the synthetic intelligence based disease modeling analysis today in NCOC. If the people don't follow strong SOP implementation and continuous strong vaccination program, the 4th wave of the disease could also be emerge in Pakistan in July. Please follow to sop’s and vaccinate as quickly as possible.”
In March, the third Covid-19 wave had set in and cases touched their top in April as a consequence of which restrictions were enforced once more. In May the speed of infection were decreased, which led the NCOC to decrease the restrictions from June 15.
In another development, the NCOC has also allowed the Pfizer vaccine to those people that are going abroad for work.
In a statement, the forum said the choice had been taken on the idea of the new guidelines.
It said citizens going for employment to a rustic where Chinese vaccines weren't recognized, like Saudi Arabia, could receive Pfizer shots. However, the statement added that this is able to apply only to those that got to begin their travel before July 26.
The injection drive continued within the country as additional 337,248 people were inoculated on Friday, increasing the general figure to 14,503,136.
It may be mentioned here that two million doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived on a special PIA plane at the Islamabad International Airport on Wednesday. During a statement, the NCOC had said that with the arrival of this consignment, daily average administration of doses across the country would enhance considerably.
The NCOC reported 1,052 new patients and 44 deaths within the last 24 hours, with the positivity ratio calculated at 2.29 per cent. Almost 1,013 patients improved from the lethal virus during at some point.



With the emergence of latest cases, the general tally of Covid-19 patients since the outbreak of the pandemic within the country rose to 952,907 while the price climbed to 22,152. The figure of active cases has been reached at 32,921 as of June 25.
Maximum ventilators were in use in four major cities, with Multan recording 28% occupancy, followed by Bahawalpur, 22%, Islamabad 21% and Lahore, 20%.
In Gilgit 45% of ventilators were occupied which is highest from any city in Pakistan, followed by Karachi, 23pc; Muzaffarabad, 19pc and Rawalpindi, 17pc.
Almost 267 ventilators were in use within the country, where in Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan haven't any patient on ventilators.
Coronavirus was discovered in China in December 2019 which then started scattering to other countries. Pakistan locked its borders and took variety of steps to prevent the spread. The primary case of Covid-19 was reported within the country within the last week of February last year.
On March 13, 2020, the primary meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC), comprising top civil and military officials, was held to debate the crisis which was declared an epidemic by the planet Health Organization.
Prime Minister Imran Khan presided over the NSC meeting and directed the relevant authorities to make an entire strategy to prevent the spread of the virus.
A lockdown was announced on March 16, 2020 and variety of industries, educational institutions, restaurants and marriage halls were closed.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was involved to verify availability of medical tools and health-related supplies and also improve coordination with the provinces.
Pakistan sealed its western border with Afghanistan and Iran and also closed Kartarpur shrine to local people.
However, when the cases began to decline, the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Covid-19 opened the development industry on Aug 7, 2020, lifted restrictions on tourism sector on Aug 8 and on restaurants and transport sector on Aug 10.
Educational institutions and marriage halls were allowed to figure from Sept 15.
In October 2020, the amount of cases began to rise again, prompting the NCOC to officially declare the beginning of the second wave of the virus.
Initially educational institutions from where cases were being informed were closed then a lockdown policy was announced for hotspot areas.
As the situation worsened, the NCOC on Nov 11 decided to extend restrictions in several sectors and eventually pack up educational institutions on Nov 26. Things improved following which secondary schools and colleges were reopened on Jan 18 and first and middle schools on Feb 1, 2021.


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