A “smart” lockdown has been imposed in different areas of Lahore amid a rising positivity ratio in the provincial capital.
According to a notification issued on Saturday, the lockdown will remain in effect till April 9 and will extend to 27 areas falling within the Allama Iqbal, Aziz Bhatti, Cantonment, Data Gunj Bukhsh, Gulberg, Nishtar, and Samanabad towns.
In this period, all markets, restaurants and offices in these areas shall remain closed.
Movement in these areas is also banned “except for limited movement of one person per vehicle” to and from facilities exempt from the ban.
The notification also states that gatherings of all kinds, religious or social, private or public, are also prohibited in this time.
