Federal Capital With 261 New COVID-19 Cases Records Highest Surge In Two Months
Sumaira FH Published July 26, 2021 | 10:21 PM
Continuing with the alarming rise, the federal capital has reported 261 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is the highest single-day spike in almost the last two months, National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Monday
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Jul, 2021 ) :Continuing with the alarming rise, the Federal capital has reported 261 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is the highest single-day spike in almost the last two months, National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Monday.
According to an official of NCOC, as many as 168 cases were reported on Sunday while 121 cases were reported on Saturday.
He said so far 85,780 cases were reported from the federal capital while 793 deaths were reported from Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) while 82,628 patients had been recovered completely.
Meanwhile, on the direction of the Ministry of National Health Services, the district administration of Islamabad had continued surveillance of different areas of the capital to reduce transmission of the infection in the selected streets and other sectors.
They also started taking action on a violation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the coronavirus while visiting marriage halls, markets, and petrol pumps by its inspection teams. The administration has been asked to take action on the violation of SOPs at shops, workshops, and restaurants.
The inspection teams have been directed to issue notices to marriage halls besides imposing fines on owners of different shops in case of violation of SOPs.
Commenting on the situation, an official of the Ministry of National Health Services said that several local-level administrative decisions were made to control the disease. He advised the citizens to continue to follow the social distancing, use of mask and other precautionary measures to stop increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the city.
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