{"id":63526,"date":"2020-04-02T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63526"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:06:06","slug":"country-remain-on-lockdown-for-two-weeks-further-extension-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/country-remain-on-lockdown-for-two-weeks-further-extension-expected.html","title":{"rendered":"Country to remain on lockdown for two more weeks; further extension expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Wednesday decided that the nationwide lockdown instituted for protection against the novel coronavirus outbreak would remain in effect till April 14, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fda-requests-punjab-govt-accord-commercial-status-21-roads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" FDA requests Punjab govt to accord \u2018commercial\u2019 status to 21 roads (opens in a new tab)\"> <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fda-requests-punjab-govt-accord-commercial-status-21-roads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" FDA requests Punjab govt to accord \u2018commercial\u2019 status to 21 roads (opens in a new tab)\">FDA requests Punjab govt to accord \u2018commercial\u2019 status to 21 roads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan chaired the NCC meeting and Minister for Planning Asad Umar informed the media about the decision. Special Assistant on National Security Moeed Yusuf and Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza were also present during the media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-closes-tourist-spots.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt closes tourist spots (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt closes tourist spots<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minster Umar revealed that all kinds of domestic flights would remain suspended until April 11, and that the decision to extend the lockdown beyond April 14 would be decided in the next NCC meeting. He added that the transportation of food items had been exempted from this rule, and that medicine stores would also remain open across the four provinces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-reforms-ease-doing-business.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt publicizes undertaken ease-of-doing-business reforms (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt publicizes undertaken ease-of-doing-business reforms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, special assistant Yusuf informed that about 2,000 nationals would be flown back to the country through several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-launches-mobile-app-flight-reservations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)  (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) <\/a>flights that had been scheduled from April 3 to April 11. All Pakistanis returning to their homeland would be tested and screened for the novel coronavirus, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Wednesday decided that the nationwide lockdown instituted for protection against the novel coronavirus outbreak would remain in effect till April 14, a news source reported. Read: FDA requests Punjab govt to accord \u2018commercial\u2019 status to 21 roads As per the publication, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan chaired the NCC meeting and Minister for Planning Asad Umar informed the media about the decision. Special Assistant on National Security Moeed Yusuf and Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr. Zafar Mirza were also present during the media briefing. Read: Punjab govt closes tourist spots Minster Umar revealed that all kinds of domestic flights would remain suspended until April 11, and that the decision to extend the lockdown beyond April 14 would be decided in the next NCC meeting. He added that the transportation of food items had been exempted from this rule, and that medicine stores would also remain open across the four provinces. Read: Punjab govt publicizes undertaken ease-of-doing-business reforms Additionally, special assistant Yusuf informed that about 2,000 nationals would be flown back to the country through several Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights that had been scheduled from April 3 to April 11. All&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15020],"tags":[24898,24899,24900,24901,21895],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-lockdown","10":"tag-national-coordination-committee-ncc","11":"tag-novel-coronavirus-outbreak","12":"tag-pakistan-international-airlines-pia-flights","13":"tag-prime-minister-pm-imran-khan","14":"cat-15017-id","15":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Country to remain on lockdown for two more weeks - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Wednesday decided that the nationwide lockdown instituted for protection against the novel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/country-remain-on-lockdown-for-two-weeks-further-extension-expected.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Country to remain on lockdown for two more weeks - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Wednesday decided that the nationwide lockdown instituted for protection against the novel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/country-remain-on-lockdown-for-two-weeks-further-extension-expected.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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