Don't board vehicles with fever, cold, cough: Minister

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik has urged the people not to board the public vehicles if they have runny nose, cough, and fever to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

"You (people) don't board the public vehicles if you have runny nose, cough, and fever. Rather, you do so after recovery from these," he told this media after an inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat on Sunday.

The minister said he has told the representatives of each ministry attended meeting to take cautionary measures and carry out campaign about it so that coronavirus cannot spread.

Health Minister Zahid said he has asked the Ministry of Religious Affairs to keep the people refrained from holding waz-mahfil, and religious programmes of other religions now in the country to halt infection of the virus. 

About people's coming in mosques, he said, "You know Saudi Arabi stopped Umrah visa as a part of the measures to curb the coronavirus spread. So, it is better for the mosques here to have fewer devotees, and those who returned from abroad should say prayers at home instead of mosque."