LAHORE: After increasing the number of COVID-19 cases, the Government of Punjab has imposed a smart lockdown in 17 more areas of Lahore and Gujranwala on Monday.
According to a notification by the Punjab Health Department, 17 neighborhoods in Lahore will be under lockdown till January 29.
The notification further said, “Three Gujranwala neighborhoods will be locked down till January 25. These neighborhoods have seen a rapid rise in coronavirus cases in the past two weeks”.
Entry and exit to these areas will be barred, while gatherings of more than five people is banned. Only stores selling necessities such as grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open from 9 am to 7 pm. Milk shops and meat shops will be open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
During the past 24 hours, Punjab reported 560 news coronavirus cases and 23 deaths. out of these, Lahore reported 352 cases and 10 deaths, taking the city’s tally to 75,011 and 1,757 respectively. Gujranwala has so far confirmed 4391 cases and 106 deaths from COVID-19.
According to the National Command and Control Center, 1,920 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in 24 hours and the total number of affected people has reached 521,211.
In the country, 475,228 people have recovered and the number of active patients is 34,986. The number of coronavirus cases in Islamabad is 40,111, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 63,615, in Sindh 235,576, in Punjab 149,782, in Balochistan 18,612, in Azad Kashmir 8,631 and in Gilgit-Baltistan 4 884 people have been infected with the coronavirus.
