Government launches drive to distribute 15m masks SAMAA | Naya Din - Posted: Jul 12, 2021 | Last Updated: 16 hours ago SAMAA | Naya Din Posted: Jul 12, 2021 | Last Updated: 16 hours ago
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The Punjab government has launched the ‘Lahore Wears Masks’ campaign to deliver free masks to households in the walled city.
“According to our study, 26% people in the city don’t wear masks,” Lahore Commissioner Captain Usman said in SAMAA TV programme
Naya Din. “We have identified 16 areas where there is no compliance of SOPs at all.”
The government of Punjab has, therefore, commenced a drive to distribute at least 15 million masks across the city through the Pakistan Post.
‘Lahore Wears Masks’ campaign underway
July 8, 2021
LAHORE: ‘Lahore Wears Masks’ is a community-wide mask wearing campaign, led by the Office of Commissioner Lahore Division Captain Muhammad Usman, along with support from other organisations and institutions i.e Yale University, Stanford University, IPA, Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Center of LUMS, Pakistan Post, Life at Lahore & MilKar.com is continue.
This campaign is based on the normalise Mask-Wearing Project, which aims to change social norms and prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is being done through distributing free of cost masks through courier, offering information in the form of brochures, reinforcement at markets and mosques, and role modelling through community leaders.
Flag march
July 6, 2021
LAHORE: The commissioner Lahore led a flag march to convince citizens to wear masks under recently launched programme ‘Lahore Wears Mask’ here on Monday.
The march started from the CCPO office and CCPO Ghulam Mahmood Dogar accompanied Commissioner Muhammad Usman. The commissioner and the CCPO distributed masks among the citizens. He said the fourth wave of coronavirus entered many countries. Corona SOPs must be followed strictly, he said and added the flag march was the most important part of ‘Lahore Wears Mask’ programme. CCPO Ghulam Mehmood Dogar said precautions were necessary to prevent the fourth wave of the infection.