ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday performed groundbreaking of Isolation Hospital and Infectious Diseases Treatment center in Islamabad.

The hospital will be established by the Frontier Works Organization (FWO). It is a fifty bed facility for the coronavirus patients.

The prime minister also visited Coronavirus Isolation Center.

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Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal briefed the prime minister about the Isolation hospital and center.

The government is taking practical steps on war footing to contain the spread of coronavirus.

According to the spokesperson of the health ministry, the NDMA was carrying out sprays in all the government buildings.