ISLAMABAD   -  The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration has sealed over 50 streets in different sectors of the Capital city due to increase in the number of coronavirus cases. 

The Federal Capital police and the officials of civil administration had cordoned off the areas while all houses with positive cases were being quarantined, said Deputy Commissioner Islamabad, Hamza Shafqaat in a news statement. 

According to a notification issued here on Sunday, streets 52, 53, 69 and 70 in G-10/3, streets, 10,40,42,45 and 53 in G-10/4, street 46 and 53 in F-11/3, streets 1,2 and 6 in E-11/4, street 32 and 33 in I-10/2, streets 30,32,45, 74 and 589 in G-13/2, street 24 in G-9/1, street 42 in F-8/1, street 13, F-15/1, streets 56,62,66,67, 91,93,96,98,99 and 100 in G-9/4, streets, 85,86,91,92,95,104, 105 and 109 in I-8/4, streets 55,58,61,64,65 and 80 to 83 in I-10/1, street 19A in G-15/1 and street 19 in Bahria Town phase 4 were sealed. The streets were closed on the recommendations of DHO and on the basis of surveillance and Covid-19 test results from public and private laboratories and hospitals, the entry and exit had been restricted at the areas in the public interest and until further orders.

The exemptions to this order include essential services and supplies like pharmacy and medicine shops, grocery stores and bakeries, patients for medical aid/medical consultation, rationing, drinking water supplies, utilities and emergency, the notification said, adding these exemptions shall be regulated by standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the DC office from time to time regarding prevention of Covid-19.

“Citizens are requested to make prior arrangements for their convenience including purchase of grocery items, medicines and reschedule their engagements/office work before the onset of lockdown, it added. Meanwhile, It was observed that accidents’ ratio was increasing rapidly with the result of losings many precious lives.

A Traffic official told APP here on Sunday that we can prevent ourselves from harmful life damaging accidents by following traffic rules but unfortunately our people were not keen to follow rules inspite of having much knowledge about rules of traffic.

Muhammad Adan a traffic official said that in our local areas mostly accidents occurred between cars and motorcycles, vans and motorcycles, buses and motorcycles, Rickshaws and motorcycles and death rate of motorcyclists was very high during collisions. 

He said that all this is because of over speeding and being teenager’s drivers.

These drivers do not know how to maintain the speed and balance of a vehicle during driving on the road

Abdulhadi from Larri Adda said that drunken drivers were also responsible for fatal accidents .He said that mostly drivers consume alcohol during their driving whenever they drive to celebrate marriage ceremonies .He said that enforcement departments treat them by Iron hands .

Muhammad Iqbal said that govt should make a solid machnism to minimize accident ratio which was raised alarmingly for the last few months in the region by implementing traffic rules strictly to prevent masses from precious life losses.

Tariq Mehmood a retired traffic police official told that our people do not like to cooperate with traffic officials in line of traffic rules. Whenever a man was being punished by traffic police over violation, he used to threat police cops and make fake complaint to his high ups .

He said that everyone must be equal before law. If a high up commit violation he would have been punished without any discrimination. People must realize that traffic police officials were their best friends because they were real source of their security regarding to their lives on the road.