PESHAWAR: A meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) held in Islamabad with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, has highly lauded the steps taken by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to effectively deal with Covid-19, said an official handout issued here on Friday.

The KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan along with his team attended the meeting through video link. Azad Kashmir prime minister and chief ministers of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Gilgit also attended the meeting through video links.

Besides reviewing the latest Corona situation across the country and preparations / arrangements to contain the possible outbreak of Covid-19 during Muharram, the meeting also discussed matters related to the opening of educational institutions after Muharram.

The forum was told that performance of KP government remained outstanding with regard to the implementation of smart lock strategy and other measures to contain the mass scale outbreak of Corona virus.

While lauding the efforts of the KP government, Prime Minister Imran Khan said under the leadership of Mahmood khan the provincial government has performed remarkably.

Mahmood Khan apprised the forum in detail about the arrangements put in place by his government to contain the possible outbreak of the pandemic during Muharram and informed that Shia scholars and Zakireen had been taken fully on board for implementation of SOPs and maintaining social distance during Muharram processions.

He further told that district administration across the province had been directed to ensure the implementation of SOPs formulated for containing the spread of virus adding that entire government was on high alert in this regard.

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