KARACHI: The Sindh government on Thursday op­p­­osed the federal government’s policy of allowing people coming from abroad to go home without getting the result of their Covid-19 test.

Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister Murtaza Wahab has suggested that returnees should not be allowed to go home until the result of their coronavirus test is received.

“Those who tested negative for coronavirus should be allowed to go home,” he said in a statement.

“Some 123 out of 246 people who arrived from Saudi Arabia recently tested positive for coronavirus. They should be kept in the isolation centres. Allowing the passengers to go home without waiting for their test result is a negative policy that will further spread the virus,” he said.

The adviser said that only those passengers who tested negative should be allowed to go home. He said now the Sindh government would trace the passengers who had tested positive to keep them in isolation centres.

He said coronavirus was spreading rapidly in the country due to poor policies of the federal government.

Published in Dawn, June 5th, 2020