Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Asif Iqbal Chaudhary stated that the Cholistan and its adjacent areas are cleared from locusts.
Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Asif Iqbal Chaudhry said the Cholistan and different territories of Bahawalpur division have been cleared from locusts and no hints of locusts or its eggs were found in an ongoing overview.
Conversing with the media person, he said that reconnaissance of locust would keep during Eid occasions since locust was all the while reproducing in zones of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and India.
“Different teams were led in the division and 1182 sections of land of land were showered with Malathion and Lambda Cyhalothrin with the assistance of the latest 600 spraying machines and helicopter of Pakistan Army”, he included.
Asif said a zone of 95000 acres of land was sprayed during the past operation against the insect, adding, that locust entered Bahawalpur from Jalalpur Pirwala in Uch Sharif region on May 15 and afterward moved towards Rahim Yar Khan and Cholistan regions.
“An extraordinary activity during the most recent 5 days helped in destroying the bug from the Cholistan and different territories of the division”, he told.
Discussing COVID-19 circumstance in Bahawalpur, Commissioner Asif Iqbal said that 366 positive cases were found in the division, of which 244 have recovered and 116 were under treatment at hospitals, confinement wards or isolation centers.
An aggregate of 8 deaths was accounted for in the division including 5 from the Rahim Yar Khan region and 3 from Bahawalpur, of which 2 were from Lodhran district and were in Bahawalpur for treatment yet terminated before treatment was even begun.
“A 400-bed Civil Hospital, 100-bed field emergency clinic and isolate office for in excess of 1000 suspects at lodgings of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur were prepared to treat coronavirus patients”, he said.
Magistrate said Bahawalpur turned into the first of nine divisions of Punjab to accomplish the wheat procurement target, including that focus of obtaining 853,269 metric ton wheat was set for the division and starting today, 902268 metric ton wheat has been procured which was 6 percent more than the objective.