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Islamabad: The countrywide lockdown during the Eid holidays is yielding results and the numbers of daily deaths as well as new cases of COVID-19 are on the decline in the country.
According to the latest data of the National Command & Operation Centre (NCOC), Pakistan reported 48 deaths and 2,517 new cases of COVID-19 in the last twenty-four hours.
With these latest figures, the country’s total number of cases have jumped to 873,220 while the death toll stands at 19,384.
According to the NCOC, after 30,700 tests in the last twenty-four hours the country’s positivity rate was 8.19 per cent while the number of active cases had also dropped to 73,398 from 75,000 a day earlier.
Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in a meeting has expressed concerns over violations of lockdown across the country by people caught apparently in an Eid shopping spree and issued directions to the federal and the provincial governments to enforce lockdown strictly and take action against the violators.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the NCOC jointly chaired by Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiative Asad Umar and Lt Gen Hamooduz Zaman Khan and attended by all the chief secretaries of the respective administrative units.
The meeting reviewed in detail the mobility control measures being implemented across the country from May 8 to 16.
Islamabad: Given the worsening situation of COVID-19 in the country, particularly in Punjab, the district administration of Lahore has decided to impose a complete lockdown in the city during the weekend on Saturday and Sunday banning all types of inter-provincial public transport during these two days.
In a tweet on Friday, Commissioner Lahore Division Muhammad Usman requested the public to support the district administration in tough decisions.
Not only public transport but businesses and markets across the city will also remain closed, it has been further decided.
However the commissioner clarified medical stores, petrol pumps and vaccination centres will remain open during the weekend.
Islamabad: The National Command & Operation Centre (NCOC) in a meeting on Monday decided to open registration for people aged 40 and above from tomorrow to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiative Asad Umar in a tweet said the NCOC decided “to open up registration of 40 plus age citizens starting tomorrow.”
The NCOC also decided to allow walk-in vaccination of all registered citizens of 50 plus age groups. “If you are 40 years or older please register and encourage others to register,” said the minister in his tweet.
Pakistan’s vaccination drive received a boost as the country received another batch of 1 million doses from China.