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PM Imran to review coronavirus situation in NCC meeting today

Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting in Islamabad today, in order to review the country-wide measures taken so far to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The meeting, which will be attended by provincial chief ministers, alongside federal ministers and diplomats, will focus on the formulation of strategies to ensure continuity of the industrial and economic activities and future planning amid coronavirus crisis in the country.

The committee is likely to decide on providing more relief funds to the people, who are facing hardships due to the sudden country-wide lockdown that has now continued for weeks.

Later in the day, the second meeting of the Special Committee of National Assembly for the ‘affectees of coronavirus’, presided by Speaker Asad Qaiser, will also be conducted in Islamabad.

The meeting will review different reports submitted by sub-committee and concerned departments about the arrangements to bring back all Pakistanis stranded abroad, management of quarantine centers at Taftan Border and status of Afghan nationals in the country.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 5,415 on Monday with 94 deaths reported across the country.

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