A big contingent of police, Rangers and Pakistan Military help native administration in sustaining lockdown. PHOTO: EXPRESS
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi administration has sealed three areas within the neighborhood of Sadiqabad Police Station as a safety measure to thwart a doable coronavirus outbreak.
The choice was taken after emergence of 5 COVID-19 circumstances from these neighbourhoods.
A big contingent of police, Rangers and Pakistan Military assisted the administration within the course of whereas individuals have been requested to remain at residence by the loudspeaker.
Based on SP Rawal division Mazhar Iqbal, the areas embrace Dhok Kashmiriyan, Justice of the Peace Colony and Dhok Paracha.
37 people have additionally been quarantined after they reportedly got here in shut contact with the coronavirus sufferers, he stated.
SP Iqbal additional added that with the assistance of regulation enforcement companies, the areas have been fully sealed. Safety personnel are guarding the realm to forestall mobility of individuals, he stated, including that grocery shops are nonetheless allowed to function within the space.
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“The measure has been taken to slow down the pace of the spread of coronavirus in the area, this would also ensure that people would stay inside their homes and avoid contracting the contagious disease,” SP Iqbal stated.
The Rawalpindi Waste Administration Firm, together with the members of Rescue 1122, additionally carried out a disinfection marketing campaign and sprayed the realm with chlorinated water.
Parvez Paracha, a neighborhood resident, informed The Specific Tribune that there’s a scarcity of provides at grocery outlets. “On the other hand, the lockdown is as strict as curfew… we are limited to our homes and are not even allowed to visit the doctors,” he stated.
Earlier within the day, the Islamabad administration sealed Ramsha Colony in Sector H-9 and Chak Shahzad and a few streets of Sector G-13 after two individuals have been discovered coronavirus constructive in these areas.
The nationwide tally of COVID-19 circumstances has soared cross 1,400, with Punjab having the very best variety of confirmed coronavirus circumstances at 496, Sindh 467, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 180, Balochistan 133, Gilgit-Baltistan 111, Islamabad 39 and Azad Jammu and Kashmir with two.
