Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health, Dr Faisal Sultan has appealed religious scholars to play their role in educating people during holy month of Ramazan to strictly adopt special preventive measures.

In a televised briefing after meeting of National Command and Operation Center, he said COVID-19 positivity ratio has doubled in the past few days reaching ten percent in the country.

He said increasing trend of disease has caused burden on the country’s health system particularly in urban centers.