The Punjab government has imposed a lockdown in seven high-burdened cities of the province. AFP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab government has imposed a lockdown in seven high-burdened cities of the province, restricting movement of the people to their homes, following intensity of the third wave of the Covid-19.
The major lockdown will start from Monday (tomorrow) for two weeks in the seven cities after a gap of a year. During the first wave of the infection in March 2020, the government had imposed a complete lockdown across the province.
The Punjab government repeated the practice in seven cities, following a massive surge in the coronavirus cases, primarily due to the UK variant of the virus.
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Coronavirus: 16 areas of Lahore put under smart lockdown
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Smart lockdown has been imposed in 16 more areas of Lahore on Friday.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Local administration in Lahore has decided to impose smart lockdown in 16 more localities after surge in coronavirus cases, Dunya News reported on Friday.
The notification issued by the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department said that there has been a constant increase in positivity percentage in Covid-19 cases in the city which poses a serious threat to public health.
According to notification, smart lockdown has been imposed in five area in Cantt, two localities of Data Ganj Bakhsh Twon, three areas of Nishtar Town, four neighborhoods of Samanabad Twon and one locality each in Shalimar Town and Wagah Town.
No commercial activity in virus-hit Lahore after 6pm, says notification
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No commercial activity in virus-hit Lahore after 6pm, says notification
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Punjab government has issued a notification to close commercial activities in Lahore by 6 pm after surge in Coronavirus cases.
According to details, due to the increasing threat of coronavirus in Lahore Secretary Primary and Secondary Care has changed the working hours of business in Lahore.
According to the notification, commercial activities, establishments and markets will close by 6pm on weekdays and completely closed on weekends.
This excludes medical services, general stores, bakeries, milk and meat shops, tire puncture shops, fruit and vegetable shops, tandoors, petrol pumps, oil depots, LPG outlets and filing plants, agriculture machinery workshops and spare parts shops, printing press, call centers with 50% staff and no public dealing.
Islamabad: Authorities in Pakistan have cautioned against the third and deadlier wave of COVID-19 in the backdrop of surge in COVID-19 cases recently.
The new phenomenon according to the Minister for Planning, Commission & Special Initiative Asad Umar is linked to the UK strain that is already known to transmit more easily and spreads faster than the Wuhan (China) strain.
Umar said since Pakistan’s first death in March last year and until now in 2021, the fatality rate saw a clear and sustained increase and “We had speculated that it might be linked to this strain but now the international report has also established it.”