People throng Moti Bazaar in Rawalpindi for Eid shopping on Thursday ahead of May 8 to 16 lockdown announced by government. Photo by Mohammad Asim
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has set up three centres to isolate expatriates coming to Pakistan in case they test positive of Covid-19.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Islamabad (East) Babar Sahib Din told
Dawn that the three quarantine facilities had been set up one each at OGDCL building, Marriott and Redison hotels. The isolation facility is available free of cost at the OGDCL and on the subsidised rate of Rs3,000 to Rs9,000 per day at Marriott and Redison.
It is up to the expatriate to avail of the government free of cost facility or stay at any of the two hotels, he said, adding Margalla Hotel and a guest house at F-7 had also been selected as a backup facilities and would be utilied, if needed.