{"id":64962,"date":"2020-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64962"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:49:14","slug":"punjab-forms-working-group-assess-health-economic-impacts-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-forms-working-group-assess-health-economic-impacts-covid-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab forms working group to assess health, economic impacts of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has formed a working group to assess the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, a news source reported. The group is expected to use this assessment to advise the provincial government on the ground impact of the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-launches-strategy-shore-up-economy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP govt launches comprehensive strategy to offset economic impact of COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The working group comprises public health specialists, statisticians, epidemiologists, applied economists, and public policy specialists, who will use data modelling and predictive analysis for smart test sampling and associated matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial Minister of Finance Hashim Jawan Bakht \u2014 also the convener of the group \u2014 revealed that these experts belong to the London School of Economics, Yale Institute of Global Health, Universities of George Town and Washington, Centre of International Development Harvard, CERP, and Mahbub ul Haq Centre. He added that they would support the government on making evidence-based policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stated that the working group would meet regularly. It would share the sampling design and predictive modelling with the Health Department. It would also give policy action recommendations to the Cabinet Committee on Prevention of Coronavirus Disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imf-to-give-usd1-4-bn-to-pakistan-to-fight-covid-19-crise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19 Relief: IMF to give Pakistan USD 1.4 bn to deal with economic turmoil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bakht highlighted that the provincial government would work on an intelligent strategy for opening up some sectors, and that smart contact tracing would help identify the sectors that are safe to open. He added that this would be a careful approach in order to reduce the risk of infections, and to allow the reopening of various economic sectors with certain SOPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has formed a working group to assess the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, a news source reported. The group is expected to use this assessment to advise the provincial government on the ground impact of the ongoing pandemic. Read: KP govt launches comprehensive strategy to offset economic impact of COVID-19 The working group comprises public health specialists, statisticians, epidemiologists, applied economists, and public policy specialists, who will use data modelling and predictive analysis for smart test sampling and associated matters. Provincial Minister of Finance Hashim Jawan Bakht \u2014 also the convener of the group \u2014 revealed that these experts belong to the London School of Economics, Yale Institute of Global Health, Universities of George Town and Washington, Centre of International Development Harvard, CERP, and Mahbub ul Haq Centre. He added that they would support the government on making evidence-based policies. The minister stated that the working group would meet regularly. It would share the sampling design and predictive modelling with the Health Department. It would also give policy action recommendations to the Cabinet Committee on Prevention of Coronavirus Disease. Read: COVID-19 Relief: IMF to give Pakistan USD 1.4 bn to deal with economic turmoil Bakht&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27841],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-punjab-forms-working-group-to-assess-health-economic-impacts-of-covid-19"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab forms working group to assess health, economic impacts of COVID-19 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Punjab government has formed a working group to assess the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-forms-working-group-assess-health-economic-impacts-covid-19.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab forms working group to assess health, economic impacts of COVID-19 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Punjab government has formed a working group to assess the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-forms-working-group-assess-health-economic-impacts-covid-19.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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