Males put on protecting masks as a safety measure towards coronavirus, as they stand exterior the Isolation ward on the Pakistan Institute of Medial Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, Pakistan March 15, 2020. REUTERS/Waseem Khan NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
JHELUM: Even after the enforcement of an entire lockdown throughout the province to stem the unfold of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the mishandling of our bodies contaminated with the virus stays a supply of concern. As a result of laxity of the administration and the well being division in addition to of the individuals, a whole village in Jhelum district was sealed on Wednesday as officers feared that it might turn out to be a brand new cluster for Covid-19 sufferers.
Native sources advised The Specific Tribune that the social distancing rule was ignored throughout the funeral of Captain (retd) Shahida Bibi, who was buried in her native village of Sohawa on Wednesday.
The deceased had lately returned from the UK to Pakistan on March 9 alongside together with her husband and nephew and moved to her native village of Akra Mora within the Sohawa space of Jhelum, the place they attended the funeral of a relative.
Quickly after, Shahida complained of feeling sick. She was taken to a hospital in Rawalpindi for remedy. There, medical doctors suspected that she could possibly be a Covid-19 affected person and picked up samples from all three members of the family for subsequent testing.
Whereas the check outcomes had been nonetheless being compiled, Shahidha succumbed to the illness.
As per native customs, her prolonged household and the local people participated in her funeral. Nevertheless, not everybody abided by the social distancing rule as family and locals hugged members of the deceased’s household to specific their condolence.
Later, check studies confirmed that Shahida, her husband and nephew had been contaminated with the coronavirus.
Officers traced all those that had attended the funeral and compelled all of them to a quarantine centre in Sohawa.
The village was later sealed whereas residents of all neighbouring villages had been additionally screened.
Akra Mora locals expressed their displeasure on the laxity of the administration and the well being division and mentioned that they didn’t act promptly although symptomatic household had arrived from overseas.
“There are still so many families in the village who have returned to Pakistan from different parts of the world during the pandemic,” they mentioned, asserting that the district administration had didn’t conduct enough screening of all such arrivals.
Sohawa tehsil has a inhabitants of 201,948.
First Covid-19 case confirmed in Attock
The primary case of Covid-19 has been confirmed within the Attock district. Swab samples from a feminine affected person from the Gharibwal village in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock examined constructive on Wednesday.
The lady had returned from Saudi Arabia on March 15 after performing Umra. She had been admitted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) in Pindigheb alongside together with her husband, each of whom had been displaying signs of the viral illness.
Their swab samples had been dispatched to the Nationwide Institute of Well being for verification from the place the check outcomes of the girl had been discovered to be constructive. Curiously, the samples of her husband examined as destructive.
After her check got here again as destructive, the girl was shifted to the isolation ward on the Attock District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ).
Pindigheb Deputy District Well being Officer Manzoor Hussain mentioned that round 17 individuals hailing from the Gharibwal village had returned from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah. Nevertheless, none of them was saved in quarantine and that they might now pose an excellent risk to the realm.
He mentioned that Gharibwal village has now been cordoned off with all entry and exit factors sealed, whereas all residents of Gharibwal and the close by village of Dhulian are being screened.
The Pindigheb Tehsil has a inhabitants of 271,594.
50 arrested for gathering in teams
Attock police on Wednesday arrested 50 individuals, together with two grooms, for violating Part 144 imposed within the district as a precautionary measure towards the unfold of Covid-19.
The Hassanabdal police arrested a groom, Wali Muhammad for arranging a marriage.
In separate raids in varied elements of the town, the police arrested 24 shopkeepers for opening their workplaces. Those that had been arrested included block manufacturing unit homeowners, tailors, automotive sellers, paint store homeowners and tent service homeowners.
In Jand, police booked 14 individuals, together with 4 cattle sellers for organising cattle markets within the Domial space.
Furthermore, the Wah Cantonment police booked a groom, recognized as Shahjehan, and two others together with Rizwan and Nasir, for organising a marriage.
Seven resort homeowners recognized as Waseem, Khalid, Sher Mohammad, Shahbaz, Shahid, Sabir and Mehmood, had been additionally arrested by the identical police for opening their inns.
WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM DNA
Printed in The Specific Tribune, March 26th, 2020.
