The proposal has been prepared and sent to the Ministry of Law. After giving legal form, it will be sent to the Prime Minister for approval.
The government is considering making the Corona Safe Certificate mandatory before marriage. In this regard, the Federal Institute of Health has suggested that along with other measures to prevent the spread of Corona in the country, it is very important for the bride and groom to be safe before marriage. For which both of them may be required to take their test before marriage.
Only such couples will register during the marriage ceremony. A proposal in this regard has been prepared and sent to the Ministry of Law. Once legalized, the proposal will be sent to the Prime Minister for approval. Earlier, Dr. Amjad Saqib, CEO of a well-known welfare organization in the country, had also said that it was being made mandatory for boys and girls to undergo coronary tests before marriage.
According to Dr. Amjad Saqib, a new law is coming soon, which will prohibit boys and girls from undergoing coronary tests before marriage. The boy and girl have to give a certificate before marriage, stating that they have had a corona test, and the report is negative. It should be noted here that since the spread of the coronavirus, the country’s provincial governments and the federal government have also banned the holding of wedding ceremonies.
How much can the coronavirus spread in Pakistan?
All marriage halls in the country are currently closed. Wedding ceremonies are also banned in homes or on the streets. It may be recalled that 14,109 people infected with coronavirus are undergoing treatment in hospitals across the country, while 5,593 people have recovered from Corona. In the last 24 hours, 22 people have died. The number of coronavirus patients in Punjab is 7,524, in Sindh 7,465, and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 3,129.
1,218 people in Balochistan, 4 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 393 in Islamabad were infected with the coronavirus. In Azad Kashmir, 71 people fell victim to Corona. On the other hand, the number of deaths due to coronavirus worldwide is close to two and a half million. The number of people affected by the epidemic has exceeded 3.5 million.
The coronavirus test report can be both negative and positive?
In the cities of Punjab, including Lahore, test reports of people infected with the coronavirus are sometimes positive and sometimes negative. According to the Punjab Health Department, test reports of patients infected with the coronavirus may vary.
Recently, there was an incident in Multan in which a young man from Italy had a positive report of the coronavirus test from a private lab, but when the health department team brought him to Nishtar Hospital and tested for coronavirus, So that was negative. So he was sent to his house.
According to VOA’s Jamshed Rizwani, the Multan district administration tested the coronavirus on 1,158 visitors after spending 16 days in Multan’s quarantine. But before their final reports came, the visitors were handed over to the administration of their respective districts.
The Punjab government had directed the district administration to keep them in isolation or quarantine center instead of sending them home till the final report is received.
Later, when the report came, 457 of them tested positive. The pilgrims are now being held in quarantine centers in different districts of Punjab, while the rest have been allowed to go home.
Hafiz Qaiser Abbas, a spokesman for the Punjab Department of Primary and Secondary Health, said that reports of coronaviruses could be different if they were tested separately in government laboratories and private laboratories.
Speaking to VOA, Hafiz Qaiser Abbas said that the first case of the coronavirus reported in Lahore was from London. When he was tested in the private laboratory ‘Chughtai Lab,’ he came back positive. The same person tested negative at Mayo Hospital. Then, for the third time, when the test report was positive, the person was treated.
He said that when the same person was tested again 19 days later, two different reports came in two days.