File photograph of AJK President Sardar Masood Khan. PHOTO: ANADOLU AGENCY
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Friday expressed satisfaction over coordinated efforts of assorted authorities departments and state establishments to comprise COVID-19 pandemic within the liberated territory.
Interesting to folks to increase their full cooperation to the state authorities and law-enforcement companies in making preventive measures successful, he mentioned that residents ought to play their half for combating the novel coronavirus.
“In all 83 suspected patients of COVID-19, 59 of them have been tested negative, two positive, and the test reports of 24 suspected cases are yet to receive,” President Masood mentioned whereas briefing AJK Chief Secretary Mathar Niaz Rana at Aiwan-e-Sadr.
The state chief secretary mentioned that lockdown had been enforced in all large and small cities of the liberated territory, nonetheless, varied measures have additionally been adopted for social distancing of individuals, and to make sure skinny participation in spiritual congregations and social gatherings.
On the entire, he maintained, the persons are cooperating with the federal government departments and the law-enforcement companies on this regard.
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Urging folks to avoid suspected individuals contaminated with COVID-19, the AJK president requested residents to clean their palms often.
Appreciating the state authorities for activating the entire equipment in a short while to comprise the unfold of contagion, he significantly paid tributes to physicians, nurses and different paramedical employees of the well being division for actively working around the clock to avoid wasting the human lives.
He additionally appreciated the armed forces of nation and the law-enforcement companies for his or her efforts to make sure security of individuals’s lives.
Later, Member of AJK Council of Islamic Ideology Mufti Kifayat Hussain Naqvi additionally referred to as on President Masood, and mentioned the function of non secular students in coping with the state of affairs erupted out of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Maximum cooperation is needed from Ulema and other religious leaders to successfully combat the pandemic,” he mentioned, including the spiritual personalities and clerics ought to persuade the folks to comply with primary ideas of cleanliness within the gentle Islamic teachings and will direct folks to carry out spiritual rituals in a means that their lives and the lives of others usually are not at risk.
