Keeping in view the coronavirus health emergency, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has handed over his official helicopter to the Health Department.

Medicine, equipment and medical kits could be transferred at the earliest through the helicopter for providing medical assistance. Helicopter could also be utilised for shifting of the patients.

Usman Buzdar said that special hospitals had already been established in Lahore, Rawalpindi and DG Khan.

He said: “Adopting precautionary measures is the only way to cope with the virus and the provincial government has taken effective and timely measures to deal with it. Decision of closure of educational institutions, marriage halls and cinemas has taken in the public interest.”