Pakistan declares an Eid holiday lockdown on Saturday. It disrupts transport and tourist destinations, to avert an increase in Covid-19 cases during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
Already dealing with the third wave of infections and growing deeply concerned about the situation in India, the government has enforced the most stringent restrictions after a one-month lockout in April last year.
“These steps warranted by the extremely dangerous situation that has developed in the area with the spread of virulent mutations of the virus,” said planning minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asad_Umar, who has been heading the federal response to the epidemic.
Even a small country like nepal saw an exponential rise in cases going up above 7,000 daily. Deaths also rose sharply. You can see the entire region is exploding with cases & deaths, in the latest covid wave. We have alhamdulillah been spared the worst by timely decisions pic.twitter.com/bbm75MzcV1
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) May 8, 2021
Eid, which comes at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan, normally marked by a large migration of people across the region, with tourist attractions packed with Pakistanis.
Last year, the world saw a surge in cases in the weeks after the holidays.
Businesses, hotels, and restaurants, as well as markets and parks, will shutter. Throughout the provinces and counties, public transit also halted. The military has called on to keep an eye on the restrictions.
Mosques, on the other hand, had packed every night of Ramzan. Despite the fact that few people have been wearing masks, will remain available. Authorities are concerned that restricting access to places of worship would spark conflict in the highly conservative Islamic republic, following Pakistan declares an Eid holiday lockdown.
ملک میں کورونا کے بڑھتے کیسز کے پیشِ نظر حکومتِ پاکستان نے اس عید پر مکمل لاک ڈاؤن کا مشکل فیصلہ کیا ہے۔ عوام سے التماس ہے کہ کورونا کا پھیلاؤ روکنے کے لیے وضع کردہ ایس او پیز پر سختی سے عملدرآمد کریں
آپ کے تعاون سے ہم ایک مرتبہ پھر دیں گے کورونا کو شکست، انشاء اللہ۔#StayHome pic.twitter.com/F092VjsWsI
— Prime Minister’s Office, Pakistan (@PakPMO) May 7, 2021
Over 850,000 infections and 18,600 deaths reported in impoverished Pakistan. However, with inadequate monitoring and a shambolic healthcare system, many believe the true nature of the disease is even worse.
Health authorities have issued a warning that hospitals are nearing capacity. They have hurried to expand the number of intensive care beds.
International flights had already curtailed, and border crossings with Iran and Afghanistan had restricted to commerce only. Owing to political tensions, flights and land crossings with neighboring India had suspended. Inida was suffering from a catastrophic outbreak with hundreds of thousands of new cases every day prior to the pandemic,
Pakistan got the first batch of 1.2 million AstraZeneca doses Saturday under the delayed Covax global vaccine sharing program, despite having only vaccinated a fraction of its population.
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