Government has placed six localities of federal capital under smart lockdown as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country.
According to the notification, the lockdown has been imposed on Street 15 Block A Media Town, Street 10 Phase 4 Bahria Town, Street 15 River Garden, Street 5 Sector E-7, Street 5 Korang Town and Street 10, Kashmiri Muhallah.
Essential services and supplies like pharmacy and medicine shops, groceries store and bakeries, patients for medical aid/consultation, drinking water supplies, utilities and emergency etc. are exempted from the restrictions.
On the other hand, Pakistan has reported 24 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 978,847. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 22,642 on Wednesday.