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By Syed Raza Hassan
KARACHI, Pakistan, 28 July (Reuters) – The Pakistani government is encouraging others to buy slaughter animals online or at least wear a mask when visiting farm animal markets, fearing that arrangements for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha may be opposed to the decline in COVID-19 number infection.
Government restrictions on social estrangement this year, coupled with the closure of part a day, have led to a drop in the number of consumers in bustling markets that, as in other Muslim countries, settle in urban centres before one of Islam’s vital highest festivals. .
The main farm animal market in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, was less crowded on Sunday than in previous years just six days before the festivities, Reuters told witnesses. The trader Allah Ditta, who has traveled many miles to sell his shares, told Reuters that his consumers had almost halved.
Most visitors ignored the requirement to wear masks, and many were accompanied by banned youth this year.
“I don’t perceive this coronavirus. I didn’t see him die,” the merchant Muhammad Akram said. “Look around you: no one wears a mask.”
Pakistan has reported more than 270,000 cases of COVID-19 with nearly 6,000 deaths. Daily instances of new infection were just under 1200 on Sunday, compared to a peak last month of 7000 around the festival, Eid al-Fitr.
“In the last 4 weeks, there has been a significant slowdown in the spread of the pandemic, with an 80% drop in deaths,” Health Minister Zafar Mirza said On Sunday three weeks after the COVID-19 positive.
“The last Eid, since the rallies were higher, other people have traveled, and this interaction has more instances,” Mizra said. “People take it very seriously and act respa financially. There is a possibility that instances, such as Spain, may re-emerge.
As market visitors have fallen, more and more people are paying for charities to slaughter farm animals on their behalf and deliver their finish or give it to those in need.
Shakil Dehelvi, co-general secretary of the Alamgir Welfare Trust, said the charity earned its target booking number twice as fast as last year. (Report through Syed Raza Hassan; Editing via Christopher Cushing)
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