ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that a coordinated media strategy will be formed to inform the people about the measures being taken to fight the coronavirus.
While chairing a video conference today, Firdous Awan said that the objective behind the conference was to make a coordinated media strategy to sensitize the people about the pandemic and their positive outcomes, besides removing the loopholes in the strategy adopted so far.
The meeting was attended by the information ministers of all the provinces, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Balochistan. She said for accuracy, the government had decided to make the decisions of the National Coordination Committee public.
She further said that the federal government had allocated Rs 50 million for highlighting the NCC decisions through advertisements in both the print and electronic media, and the provinces could also follow suit.
She stressed that the provincial governments should review the implementation of the decisions, measures, and challenges for containing the coronavirus.
Earlier on Friday, Awan said that Prime Minister Imran Khan directed authorities that not to increase gas prices. She said that the prime minister would set up procedures for giving relief to the people.
The necessary institutional reforms would be introduced in the gas sector, she added. Awan said that the irreversible supply of gas to the people would be continued.
She earlier today thanked China for sending medical facilities, equipment and doctors to tackle the coronavirus disease in the country.
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