Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the Centre and provinces to have better coordination among them to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and directed that meetings of the NCOC be held in all the provincial capitals.

“It will further improve administrative measures in coordination and cooperation of the provincial governments and the administrations concerned with regard to containing coronavirus,” the prime minister said while presiding over a meeting held to review the coronavirus situation in the country.

The prime minister has also directed authorities concerned to ensure strict implementation of the standard operating procedures and all precautionary measures on the occasion of Eidul Azha and during Muharram.

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