KARACHI: Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar on Wednesday said that numbers of Covid-19 patients are decreasing but it has not ended and the citizens should be very careful on the eve of Eidul Azha.

The people should avoid gatherings and adopt precautionary measures and follow standard operating procedures while performing religious obligations on Eidul Azha. "The infection may spread if we don't follow SOPs," he added.

He said that the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has completed all necessary measures at hospitals and is also providing free of cost testing facility. "It is a joint responsibility not only to keep ourselves save from infectious diseases but also ask our loved ones to adopt preventive measures," he added.

The mayor also asked the citizens to follow SOPs while visiting cattle markets and not to take children with them. The people should follow health advisory regarding Congo virus. He appealed to the citizens not to throw offal of sacrificial animals in drains and roads but dump the same on the place fixed for such purpose.

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