{"id":64346,"date":"2020-04-20T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64346"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:39:08","slug":"covid-19-govt-identify-pandemic-hotspots-impose-smart-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-govt-identify-pandemic-hotspots-impose-smart-lockdown.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Govt to identify pandemic hotspots to impose &#8216;smart lockdown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal government is ramping up its COVID-19 testing capacity, along with improving methods to identify pandemic hotspots, throughout the country \u2014 with the initiative geared towards implementing what it terms to be a &#8216;smart lockdown&#8217;, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-coronavirus-fund-receives-pkr-3-14bn-donations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh Coronavirus Fund receives PKR 3.14bn in donations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf said on Sunday that once the government managed to enhance its testing capacity, it would be possible to trace asymptomatic patients that did not as yet show any visible signs of being affected. In addition, Yusuf said that frequent testing would also help the government identify various affected hotspots around the country, and that subsequently, only areas with large number of cases would be put under lockdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/small-business-owners-request-sindh-govt-to-reopen-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Small business owners request Sindh govt to reopen markets for limited hours<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SAPM also informed that the government was planning to bring back the Pakistanis stranded abroad due to the restrictions put in place across various countries because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-coronavirus-fund-receives-pkr-3-14bn-donations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"coronavirus pandemic (opens in a new tab)\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>. He added that the government would also permit the people stuck in countries in which the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) does not currently operate in, to be retrieved by private airlines instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government is ramping up its COVID-19 testing capacity, along with improving methods to identify pandemic hotspots, throughout the country \u2014 with the initiative geared towards implementing what it terms to be a &#8216;smart lockdown&#8217;, a news source reported. Read: Sindh Coronavirus Fund receives PKR 3.14bn in donations As per the publication, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf said on Sunday that once the government managed to enhance its testing capacity, it would be possible to trace asymptomatic patients that did not as yet show any visible signs of being affected. In addition, Yusuf said that frequent testing would also help the government identify various affected hotspots around the country, and that subsequently, only areas with large number of cases would be put under lockdown. Read: Small business owners request Sindh govt to reopen markets for limited hours The SAPM also informed that the government was planning to bring back the Pakistanis stranded abroad due to the restrictions put in place across various countries because of the coronavirus pandemic. He added that the government would also permit the people stuck in countries in which the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) does&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":63408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23940,26782,26781,26783],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-covid-19","8":"tag-pandemic-hotspots","9":"tag-smart-lockdown","10":"tag-special-assistant-to-the-prime-minister-sapm-on-national-security-dr-moeed-yusuf"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: pandemic hotspots to impose &#039;smart lockdown&#039; - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government is ramping up its COVID-19 testing capacity, along with improving methods to identify pandemic hotspots\" \/>\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\/covid-19-govt-identify-pandemic-hotspots-impose-smart-lockdown.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: pandemic hotspots to impose &#039;smart lockdown&#039; 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