Govt eyes to restrict visas for 3 countries
MEDICAL Ministry has recommended restricting on-arrival visa service for citizens of Iran, South Korea, and Italy as these countries are damaged by coronavirus infection.
Wellness Secretary Asaduzzaman confirmed the problem to an area English daily newspaper on Tuesday.
“We have recommended it to the house ministry. They might have executed these methods,” said the secretary.
Health and wellbeing Minister Zahid Malik on Tuesday suggested persons not to get unnecessary foreign trips due to deadly novel coronavirus (0COVID-19) has spread to 60 countries across the globe.
“It’s better avoid needless tours to foreign countries seeing as coronavirus has spread to 60 countries of the world…many intercontinental events have already been cancelled for this,” he said.
Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora asked all returnees from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) influenced countries are getting monitored closely to prevent the outbreak of the condition.
Mainland China had 125 new confirmed situations of coronavirus attacks on Monday (March 2), the National Well being Commission said on Tuesday, down from 202 situations a day previous and the lowest since the authority started publishing nationwide info in January.
The sharp drop in new infections from a day earlier was driven by an additional decline in new confirmed cases in Wuhan, the town hit hardest by the pathogen in China.
