Taking an indirect shot at the federal government, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blamed ‘mixed messages’ from the Centre and not the public, for the violation of COVID-19 SOPs across the country.
Speaking to media outside the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Rawalpindi office on Thursday, CM Murad said that mixed signals had been sent regarding the coronavirus which had claimed more than a thousand lives across Pakistan.
“The entire world and our country are going through a trial at the moment,” he said. “SOPs are not being followed at a lot of places and I will not blame the public for it. This is because of the mixed signals being sent to people. One person says it [COVID-19] is a dangerous disease while another says it is just flu, you will be fine after suffering a cold,” he said.
The chief minister said that the centre had voiced concern for the economic impact of the virus on the poor. However, he said that the lives of the poor mattered the most and questioned that if they started dying, who will take care of their children. “There should be a unified message [from the government] that this is a life-threatening disease,” he said. “This is serious.”
