Law enforcement officials patrol a Shahzad City locality on Thursday which was sealed after two Covid-19 circumstances surfaced there (High); IMC’s firemen spray the Jinnah Tremendous Market space with disinfectants. PHOTOS: ONLINE
ISLAMABAD / RAWALPINDI: The district administration on Thursday sealed not less than two extra localities within the federal capital as new, confirmed circumstances of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) continued to emerge within the metropolis.
In the meantime, police recovered the physique of a suspected Covid-19 affected person from a home in Sector G-13.
Areas sealed
The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration (ICTA) sealed the whole Shahzad City and the slum space of Rimsha Colony in Sector H-9 after confirmed Covid-19 circumstances have been reported from each localities.
The district administration deployed the police, rangers and military personnel to protect all entry and exit factors. Earlier, the ICTA had solely sealed Road-6 of Shahzad City, however later, it moved to close down the whole space.
The explanation for the sealing Shahzad City was a person who had examined constructive for Covid-19. The person hails from Lahore and was staying in Shahzad City. He was a member of the Tableeghi Jamaat and was within the space as a part of a bunch of preachers.
Authorities declared the affected person’s home a quarantine centre. The affected person stated that his nephew had returned from China two months in the past and later he travelled to Raiwind on a 14-day Tableeghi (preaching) journey. The nephew and later his uncle, each examined constructive for Covid-19 after which his household was interned in the home and police guards have been posted outdoors to make sure that they don’t break quarantine.
In the meantime, police and paramilitary troopers patrolled the streets of Shahazad City and advised anybody loitering within the streets to return to their properties. All outlets within the space have been additionally closed till additional orders.
Individually, Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamzaa Shafqaat ordered to seal the Rimsha Colony in Sector H-9 after some folks examined constructive for Covid-19 from the locality.
To curtail the unfold of the virus, the IMC has directed all of its sanitary employees, who reside within the colony, to remain residence from Friday.
IMC Sanitation Director Sardar Khan Zimri stated that sanitary employees, together with these on the company’s payroll and people on contracts, shouldn’t report back to their stations till the outcomes of their coronavirus checks are out.
Sanitation inspectors have been instructed to not mark all such employees as absent throughout this era, whereas they are going to be paid full salaries as properly.
To date, not less than three areas of the federal capital, together with Bhara Kahu, have been sealed after Covid-19 circumstances emerged there. Bhara Kahu’s Kot Hathiyal UC reported one other Covid-19 constructive case on Thursday.
In the meantime, ICTA has barred entry of outsiders in Islamabad and stopped all autos from getting into town for now.
Owing to this, tons of of autos have been queued up at totally different entry factors together with Categorical Freeway and Faizabad, ready for approval to enter the federal capital.
Lockdown
The administrations within the twin cities strictly enforced the final lockdown and despatched these stepping out unnecessarily again to their properties as well being amenities in Rawalpindi handled as many as 10 Covid-19 circumstances.
Locals in Islamabad maintained the quarantine. Therefore the principle industrial markets and malls have been abandoned.
Personnel of the military, paramilitary Rangers and the police have been deployed at totally different thoroughfares within the metropolis and the cantonment areas of the garrison metropolis. All bazaars and markets seemed abandoned. Rawalpindi police have tightened the noose in opposition to loiters even within the suburban areas now, which was not there till just a few days in the past.
In each cities, grocery, medical, dairy, fruit, and vegetable outlets remained open, as per the exemption granted. The utility shops, banks, and gas stations have been additionally working with a skeleton employees.
Furthermore, folks queuing up outdoors outlets to buy groceries have been requested to implement social distancing recommendation.
Most thoroughfares within the garrison metropolis have been transformed into one-way roads and barricades have been erected.
Locals in numerous areas of Rawalpindi, nevertheless, complained a couple of scarcity of sugar and flour shares and that grocers have been charging exorbitant costs for these important commodities the place they have been accessible.
In the meantime, the Rawalpindi district administration in its each day report on Thursday stated that as many as 10 confirmed Covid-19 sufferers are receiving remedy on the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT).
In the meantime, the Rawalpindi police impounded some 41 bikes for violating the ban on pillion driving.
Police within the federal capital additionally registered 22 circumstances and booked some 116 folks for violating the ban on pillion driving and opening outlets which weren’t exempted from lockdown.
The timing and employees of district courts have been slashed too and so they operated for an hour from 9am to 10am.
Disinfecting capital
In the meantime, the civic businesses together with Capital Growth Authority (CDA), Islamabad Metropolitan Company (IMC) and ICTA have launched a cleanliness marketing campaign underneath which totally different markets, quarantine centres, and different websites can be washed with chlorinated water adopted by spraying of disinfectants.
The drive commenced from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) by which IMC Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz and Deputy Mayor Zeeshan Naqvi participated.
The mayor stated that the delicate areas can be washed and sprayed twice in every week in the course of the pandemic.
The Inspector Basic Police (IGP) Amir Zulfiqar Khan paid tribute to the medical and paramedical employees in addition to the police personnel who have been risking their lives for the safety of individuals. He directed the police personnel to salute to the healthcare suppliers wherever they arrive throughout and additional help them in each attainable means.
Printed in The Categorical Tribune, March 27th, 2020.
