LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department has decided to extend the scope of Counter Terrorism Department to 12,000 square kilometre tribal area of Koh-e-Sulaiman in south Punjab with the approval of.
Most of the Punjab Cabinet members have proposed that the provincial government must go ahead to impose lockdown in the cities facing high coronavirus rate. INP/File
LAHORE: Most of the Punjab Cabinet members have proposed that the provincial government must go ahead to impose lockdown in the cities facing high coronavirus rate.
As many as 2,100 coronavirus deaths and 85,900 new positive cases have been reported during the past one month. Lahore alone is facing 22.7 per cent positivity rate at present. Twenty-three districts are reporting over 8pc infection rate in Punjab.
However, the cabinet in its 43rd meeting at chief minister’s secretariat on Thursday did not immediately decide to propose lockdown in select cities to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
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LAHORE: The 43rd cabinet meeting held under Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at his office here on Thursday was briefed on prevailing corona situation, Ramazan package and wheat procurement drive. https://5c6b398d9fc1fc91ca8a9709448fa590.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The cabinet expressed its concern over the rising number of corona cases and death rate and showed its reservations over non-implementation of SOPs by the citizens. It decided to further strict restrictions in cities with a more positive ratio to save the lives of the citizens.
The provincial ministers presented a consensus proposal to enforce a complete lockdown before Eid in Lahore and other cities with more corona ratio. A special cabinet committee will finalise recommendations after reviewing proposal of complete lockdown to submit the same to NCOC. It was decided to increase the number of oxygen beds and ventilators on an emergent basis along with the adoption of beds to maintain