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ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has constituted monitoring teams at federal, provincial, and district levels to ensure the implementation of COVID-19 related standard operating procedures (SOPs) from May 8-16.
The development came during a meeting chaired by Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar and co-chaired by National Coordinator Lieutenant General Hamood Uz Zaman Khan.
During this period, all businesses and shops will remain closed with few exceptions like food outlets, grocery stores, pharmacies, petrol pumps and bakeries. There would be a complete ban on tourism for both locals and outsiders.
“All tourist resorts, formal and informal picnic spots, public parks, shopping malls; all hotels and restaurants in/around tourist/ picnic spots to remain closed,” it added.
“Travel nodes leading to tourist spots [will also remain] closed; focus on [the areas of] Murree, Galiyat, Swat-Kalam, Sea View/beaches and the Northern Areas [will remain],” stated the statement.
