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  • Pakistan: Govt decides to shut big markets across country which violate lockdown SOPs

    June 4

    ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The federal government has on Thursday decided to shut all big markets across the country which violate standard operating procedures (SOPs) to counter the coronavirus pandemic, Dunya News reported.

    Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill tweeted, “Under the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) decisions, several big markets across Pakistan will be closed today over violation of lockdown SOPs.

    “Operation in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been initiated. We must follow SOPs in any case.”

    Punjab Chief Secretary Jawad Rafique Malik briefed the NCOC and stressed that irresponsibility is causing deaths. The epidemic can be controlled only by following SOPs, he said.

    “Big markets in Punjab will be shut in the light of the NCOC decisions. Industrial areas, markets and transport will be bound to follow rules and fines will be imposed over violations.”

    Jawad Rafique Malik also chaired an emergency meeting at Camp Office in which it was decided to strictly implement SOPs concerning COVID-19. He and said no relaxation will be given to offenders from now onwards and instructed all police officers to remain on patrol.

    http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/5481...-lockdown-SOPs

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    LAHORE: Alarmed at the exponential increase in the coronavirus-positive cases and deaths, the Punjab government has decided to come out of its awareness-creating mode and put its foot down to ensure implementation of SOPs in Lahore – to begin with.

    The Punjab government had recorded 43 Covid-19-related deaths and [record] number of 1,610 citizens tested positive on Tuesday, while 30 deaths and another high number of 1,639 people contracted the virus on Wednesday.

    The Punjab health department’s smart sampling data analysis in Lahore has already scared people as well as the government about mass spread of infections with 670,800 projected coronavirus-positive cases.

    continued: https://www.dawn.com/news/1561201/pu...-in-infections

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