Karachi (HRNW) We need a national action plan on the coronavirus, said Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. But prioritising the economy over people’s lives isn’t the way to go, he said. “We can revive a dead economy, but not dead people.”
During a Monday morning press conference, the chief minister shared details of Sindh’s cases and the number of tests it has conducted. He said In the past 24 hours Sindh has tested 531 people and 41 cases are coronavirus positive.
“This isn’t my issue or yours or Sindh’s or even Pakistan’s. It’s a global issue,” he said, adding that if someone makes a mistake in another corner of the world, eventually it will reach him in Sindh.
You can’t make decisions alone, said Shah. “If I make a decision and you don’t follow it, I won’t be safe. I can’t keep myself safe by staying locked up in my house,” he said.
He denied that Sindh imposed the lockdown thoughtlessly and said they tried to adopt the world’s best practices. “There is no right answer,” he said, adding that the only way to win is to stay ahead of the virus.
“The day the virus overtakes you, when your health services collapse, you will fall behind,” he said. CM Shah said they will make mistakes and have made them. “But one mistake I will not make is not doing anything.”
He said the biggest mistake in this situation would be not to act at all. Shah said that he was very glad that the other province’s followed Sindh in imposing lockdowns but had hoped the federal government would implement a nation-wide policy instead of leaving up to the individual provinces.
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