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KARACHI: Karachi’s district administration has issued a notification to implement micro-smart lockdowns in different areas of three sub-divisions of the Central District following an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases in the metropolis.
According to a notification, micro-smart lockdowns that have been imposed in various residential units in Central District Divisions including North Karachi, North Nazimabad, and Gulberg, will be effective from March 29 to April 12.
The micro-smart lockdowns will be imposed in areas identified as coronavirus hotspot ones by the district officer, the notification said.
The district authorities instructed that all persons entering and leaving the affected areas must wear masks. Unnecessary movement of people in the affected areas and pillion riding will be banned as well.
All business and industrial activities in the affected areas will be suspended, it added.
Sindh health authorities have reported 275 new more COVID-19 cases, and two deaths lifting the death toll to 4,497 during the last 24 hours.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement issued on Tuesday said that two more patients of COVID-19 lost their lives lifting the death toll to 4,497 that constituted a 1.7 percent death rate. Murad Ali Shah said that 7,853 samples were tested which detected 275 cases that constituted 3.5 percent current detection rate.