PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkwa government on Sunday announced one week complete lockdown in district Mardan after rising number of Coronavirus cases.
Special Assitant to Chief Minister, Kamran Bangash in a statement said that with Covid positivity ratio still above 40 percent, they were implementing a complete lockdown in Mardan.
“The situation will be closely monitored for future decisions and carve out a workable plan”, he said. He requested people to strictly observe Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and observe social distancing.
Earlier, provincial Minister Atif Khan along with members provincial assembly Zahir Shah Toru, Abdul Salam Afridi and Amir Farzand Khan announced seven days lockdown in Mardan while addressing a press conference at the Commissioner office.
They said complete lockdown decision was taken keeping in view deteriorating situation of coronavirus in Mardan. The district administration decided that only food shops, medicine stores, petrol pumps would be opened.
All type of traffic would remain suspended and prayers would be offered in mosques with strict adherence to SOPs during lockdown. In order to ensure strict enforcement of COVID-19 SOPs as per the directions from the NCOC, the district administrations across KP fined 11928 individuals and commercial units with Rs 332,189 during the last 24 hours.
According to a report available with the office of Chief Secretary revealed that warnings were issued to 3,497 persons with registration of FIRs while 523 business units were fined heavily and 480 were sealed.
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary KP urged masses to ensure implementation of corona SOPs in vital interest of all and use face mask, hand sanitizers and gloves during interaction with others and wash their hands with soaps from time to time in order to prevent the spread of infectious coronavirus.
He also directed all district officers to ensure implementation of corona SOPs in letter and spirit
