Punjab goes for separate line of action for lockdown.

Byline: Mansoor Malik

LAHORE -- Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, Lahore Corps Commander Lt-Gen Majid Ehsan and other senior civil and military officers decided to go for a line of action different from the federal government to check the spread of coronavirus in the provincial metropolis.

The government plans to keep the industries, businesses and markets shut in Lahore for three days instead of the federal government's decision of two days. It resolves the implementation of the Punjab Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Ordinance 2020 in letter and spirit while registering cases against the violators of the standard operating procedure (SOP).The Punjab government has constituted a committee, headed by additional chief secretary (home), to formulate recommendations for submission before the federal government.

The Punjab government had suggested to the federal government to ease the lockdown about a week back and after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced going for easing the lockdown in phases on Thursday, the Punjab government decided to go for a different line of action on Friday.

However, after the National Coordination Committee meeting also attended by chief ministers of the four provinces, the sources say, the federal government has already allowed the provinces to take independent decisions to deal with the ground realities in respective districts of a province.

A high-profile meeting at chief minister's secretariat on Friday took a detailed review of anti-coronavirus steps and future roadmap of phase-wise easing of lockdown. The meeting spotted Lahore followed by Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot and Faisalabad as hotspots of the coronavirus and planned to devise a separate policy to overcome the crisis.

Decides to keep industries, markets shut for three days instead of two announced by Centre

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