Around 250,000 people locked as smart lockdown imposed in Muzzaffarbad city, Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD -- After a surging rise in COVID-19 spread across the country, various parts of the country were put under complete lockdown with large number of positive cases reported in those areas where Muzzafarabd city was under complete lockdown with 200,000 population ,two sectors of Islamabad G-9/2 and G-8/3 were locked with approximately 50,000 population.

The test, trace and quarantine (TTQ) strategy developed by the government helped to impose smart lockdowns with the chunk of affected population home quarantined for reducing the contagion outbreak.

The smart lockdown had been imposed in various parts of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sindh, Gilgit Baltistan and the federal capital.

The data provided by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) revealed that the core objective of the TTQ strategy was to identify coronavirus spreading hotspots and cluster areas, imposing smart lockdown in the affected places, quarantining of positive and suspected patients, contact tracing of the COVID-19 patients, optimization of healthcare facilities at all levels, augmentation of testing capacity, boosting healthcare capacity to avoid it getting overrun with the increasing number of patients and meticulous monitoring through technology and trained workforce.

The strategy was developed with the assistance of Pakistan Army which was one of the best and productive solutions to be adopted to contain the increasing risk of pandemic outbreak through smart lockdowns.

The strategy managed to build up a strong and grass roots level network of trained community activists and leaders to mobilize the masses to fully comply with safety guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to contain the risk of the contagion.

As many as 66 districts administrations among 1500 Union Councils were engaged in collaboration with the rural support programmes (RSPs). The available data showed that Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)'s 8 districts had 127 local support organizations (LSOs) functional at the basic...

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