Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has stated on Thursday that during the polliticians of our country have committed the worst form of violation of the Covid Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

“Two weeks back Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was threatening to hold prime minister and ministers accountable if COVID spreads further in Karachi and now Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announces holding a ‘Jalsa’ this month in Karachi! Sadly the worst violations of Covid-19 SOPs in the last one year have come from politicians,” he tweeted.

While talking about the AJK elections, the minister said that "Since the elections, the positivity of AJK is running between 25 and 30%. Elections have acted as a super spreader event,”. 

The minister who is also chairman of National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said that before the AJK elections, he recommended that the elections should be postponed for a couple of months and a special vaccination campaign must take place to curb the spread of COVID. 

In another tweet, Asad Umar said that around 40 million vaccination doses had been administered so far.

“The last 10 million took only nine working days to administer. Let’s vaccinate and make Pakistan safe from this disease”, he concluded.