Pertaining to the culminating COVID-19 cases in Lahore, a surge of fourteen inmates getting infected with coronavirus in Lahore jail has been observed.

The rising Covid cases in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat and Camp prisons, 5 and 9 infections respectively, alarm jail authorities as the department apprises the Punjab government to look into the matter.

It has been decided in the meantime by the prisons department to admit new inmates in segregated barracks for their quarantine before they can be assigned their cells.

Separately earlier today, amid the rising positivity ratio of COVID-19, the Islamabad administration has announced more restrictions on movement in the federal capital.

As per the notified direction by the Islamabad administration, the out-door dining facility will remain inaccessible across the capital city after 10:00 pm.