Islamabad: Pakistan announced on Thursday the reopening of restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms, business centers and gyms starting Monday, August 10 after a nearly five-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Minister of Planning and Special Initiatives, Asad Umar, who also chairs the Coronavirus Control Committee in a teleconference, shared the decisions he said had been taken at a previous National Operations and Command Control (NCOC) assembly to further assess the scenario in the country. .
“We are ending restrictions in the sectors after noticing an unprecedented drop in coronavirus instances across the country and witnessing people’s cooperation with the government on compliance with popular operating procedures (SOPs) for Covid-19,” Umar said.
Umar hoped that the other people would continue to expand their cooperation with the government to keep the coronavirus under constant control.
Umar said restaurants, cafes and restaurants could reopen with strictly established PCOs. The government will end PCOS in the coming days, he said.
He stated that the resumption of contactless sports was also allowed, but without a hearing, tournaments and matches were allowed.
Shrines open from September 15
The NCOC will also allow wedding halls to resume their activities from 15 September, the minister said, adding that shrines and mausoleums were also opened, but clarified that at the time of a party or devoted collection in those shrines, provincial governments would be allowed. publish POE and decide, he added.
The government also has to lift all restrictions on the operating times and days of markets and outlets that will now return to the pre-coronavirus routine, Umar announced.
All provinces can on their own business hours and days according to their general procedures, the minister said.
Pakistan reported 21 deaths, 727 shown and 1,772 cures in 24 hours on Thursday. The total number of infections is 281,863.
The number of active instances in the country is 19,770 with a cure rate of more than 90%. The mortality rate remained as low as 2.1% for the seventh day in a row.
More than 15,000 tests have been carried out nationwide in more than 24 hours to determine the presence of the virus, according to the Ministry of Health portal.
Meanwhile, a graduate intern, Dr. Muzamil Abbas, who was serving in the neurology branch of Nishtar Hospital in Multan, Punjab, fell in the fight opposite the coronavirus. I had contracted COVID-19 more than a month ago.
Dr. Abbas was first admitted to Nishtar Hospital, but was then transferred to RecepTayyip Erdogan Hospital in Muzaffargarh when his condition deteriorated, where a fan was put on him.
His condition stepped forward and he got rid of the fan, however, he put it back on after his condition worsened and he did not recover. Previously, the director of Nishtar Medical University, Dr. Mustafa Kamal Pasha, also lost his life to coronavirus.
The Young Physicians Association and colleagues of Dr. Muzamil Abbas have requested that the deceased physician be declared a martyr and that payment of his circle of relatives be announced through the provincial government.
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