ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza confirmed that four Pakistani students in China have been positively diagnosed with coronavirus.
Addressing a press conference here, the SAPM on Health stated that so far four Pakistani students studying in China’s Wuhan have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
“Four students have been confirmed to have the coronavirus. Their condition is better now,” Dr Zafar Mirza said. He said that health ministry is in contact with the Pakistani embassy in Beijing. “Pakistani officials in China are in constant touch with all the students,” he said. However until now there is no reported case in Pakistan, Mirza said.
The SAPM, however, refused to share the names of the affected students with the media. “The government will take good care of the students who have contracted the virus,” he said at the presser.
He said that there was a wide spread concern over novel coronavirus disease and in this regard World Health Organization (WHO) called two emergency meetings to review the situation in China and elsewhere. He said that WHO also released certain instructions to its members’ states on the disease. “Pakistan is strictly following these instructions. We have to deal with the possibility of spread of this disease as a national emergency and all those measures must be taken.”
He said the government has established national emergency operation center and activated national task force on international health regulations, besides creating national coronavirus emergency core committee in which all ministries and sectors are represented.
He said that SOPs have been developed to manage the inflow of the international passengers and examine some signs and symptoms in order to put those suspected people under observation, besides isolating them in designated healthcare facilities and screening at ports of entry (POE).
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