Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has ordered non-payment of salaries to government employees who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus. The decision will come into effect from July.
Shah took the decision while chairing a meeting of the provincial coronavirus Task Force here at Chief Minister House on Thursday.
Earlier, the Sindh government on May 27, 2021 gave a seven-day ultimatum to its employees to get the COVID-19 jab.
While chairing the meeting, Sindh CM reiterated his appeal to the general public to reach the nearest vaccination centre to get the jab.
The CM also ordered the conversion of 300 basic health units of the government in the province into vaccination facilities to help inoculate 30,000 people daily.
Four more Indian variant cases detected in Pakistan
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June 1, 2021
KARACHI: Four more cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus (B.1.617.2) have been detected in Pakistan, taking the number of such cases to five, as the country reported 43 deaths and 2,117 Covid-19 cases during the last 24 hours.
Sindh Health Secretary Kazim Jatoi said on Monday all four people had returned from Middle East and tested positive upon arrival at the Karachi airport, Geo News reported. “Three of them had come from Iraq while another arrived from Muscat,” Jatoi said, adding three belonged to Karachi and one hailed from Ghotki. They had been quarantined and tests of their family members were also being conducted, he said.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has approved a solar home system programme worth Rs4 billion to be launched with the assistance of the World Bank in 10 districts of the province next.
10 Sindh districts to get 50% off solar systems: govt
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If you live in these ten districts in Sindh you could be one of 20,000 households eligible for a 50 percent subsidy to install a solar system at home with PV solar plates, a Lithium ion battery, three LED bulbs, one DC fan and one mobile charger port. Those districts are: Badin, Ghotki, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Khairpur, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Sanghar, Tharparkar, Sujawal and Umerkot. The Sindh government is working with World Bank assistance for this Rs4 billion programme. It will target 20,000 households in the 10 districts. The household will pay for half of the system and the rest will be covered by the government.Â