Islamabad: Head of the Pakistani Coronavirus response on Thursday said the selection of the recent assembly was held in Kashmir occupied by Pakistan (POK) acting as a “super spreader” for pandemic like the country struggling to contain the fourth wave of Covid-19.
Pakistan noted the fatality of 102 Covid in the last 24 hours, the highest since May 20, encouraged the national death toll to 24,187, while the confirmed case calculation touched 1,085,294 with 4,934 new infections recorded overnight, the Ministry of Health said.
Planning Minister Asad Umar, who also led the National Command and the Operations Center (NCOC), blamed the July 25 election in Pok for a surge in the virus.
NCOC is the main body that regulates the policy and implementation of Pakistan’s national Covid-19 efforts.
Umar in a tweet said he had recommended that the election in Pok will be “postponed for several months and a special vaccination campaign ran before the election”.
However, “it was not approved”.
“The election (in Pok) has acted as a super spreader,” he said.
India has refused the election in Pok which was won by the Prime Minister Imran Khan (PTI) party, Pakistani Party (PTI), by saying “cosmetic sports” is nothing but effort by Pakistan to “prepare illegal work” and it has.
submit a strong protest about this problem.
Since the election, said Umar, POK’s participants have between 25 and 30 percent.
According to the Ministry of Health, Pakistan’s current level of Pakistan is 8.31 percent, the highest during the fourth wave, which hit the country last month.
This virus spreads quickly, although there is an increase in vaccination drive, the ministry said.
More than 40.6 million people have been given at least one dose of vaccines, while more than 11.4 million are fully vaccinated, he said.
On the way to elections, NCOC was reported to have written a letter to the commissioner of the Pok Election, which stated that because of the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, polls must be postponed because large political meetings can cause further viruses in the state.
However, the proposal was not accepted, while the large opposition parties in the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) and Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) – opposed the idea of ​​postponing the election, said the Constitution had no such provision, the Dawn newspaper report.