Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Services, Dr. Zafar Mirza has asserted that the world can still change the course of coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Zafar Mirza took to Twitter and said that the world can still change the course of this pandemic by detecting testing, isolating, tracing, and mobilizing their people in response.
246/ The ???? can still change the course of this pandemic, by detecting, testing, treating, isolating, tracing, and mobilizing their people in the response. Countries needs to scale up the emergncy resp by communicating with the people about risks and how to protect the public.
— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) March 11, 2020
In another tweet, after WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic, Dr. Zafar Mirza said that the step was taken to highlight the importance for countries to strengthen their preparations for imminent community spread.
245/ @WHO has characterized #coronavirus as a pandemic. What does this mean?
Due to the widespread of #COVID19 across the ????, WHO wants to highlight the importance for countries to strengthen their prep and resp for imminent community spread. The gist of this is following ????????— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) March 11, 2020
He further said that the countries need to scale up the emergency response by communicating with their people about risk.
Dr. Zafar Mirza also assured that the federal and provincial governments have been working together to strengthen Pakistan’s response to virus.
247/ In Pakistan, the federal and provincial governments have been working in sync for the past 7 weeks to implement the broad cardinals of preparedness and response as DG @DrTedros has highlighted. We will inshAllah continue to work to keep Pakistanis ???????? safe from #coronavirus
— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) March 11, 2020
