ISLAMABAD – NCOC, the main body in charge of Pakistan's National COVID-19 endeavour strategies and implementation, was restored days after the prime minister noticed the highly infectious sub-variant of the Omicron virus.
According to the announcement, the National Command and Operational Center (NCOC) has been reconstituted at the National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan, on orders from the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Abdul Qadir Patel, the Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination, will lead NCOC.
Meanwhile, all government ministries will continue to help the top monitoring body, and the NCOC will manage the issue with all four provincial health departments.
On the previous government's orders, the NCOC was formally shut down. It stopped working after the centre celebrated its second anniversary and two weeks after the Pakistani government stated that COVID had returned to normal after infecting over 1.5 million Pakistanis and killing over 30,000 since March 2020.
Meanwhile, new COVID cases have been reported worldwide, particularly in China, where officials are considering instituting a lockdown in the capital.
