{"id":65212,"date":"2020-05-08T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65212"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:51:25","slug":"businesses-gradually-reopen-from-tomorrow-govt-announces-new-timings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/businesses-gradually-reopen-from-tomorrow-govt-announces-new-timings.html","title":{"rendered":"Businesses to gradually reopen from tomorrow, govt announces new timings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday announced the phase-wise easing of the ongoing, countrywide lockdown from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-for-relaxing-lockdown-from-may-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">May 9 <\/a>onward; along with a resumption of operations of various industries linked to the construction sector as well as shopping centres (for five days a week from sunrise to 5 pm), according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lockdown-balochistan-extended-another-14-days.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lockdown in Balochistan extended for another 14 days<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These developments were announced by the premiere following the National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting, which was attended by both the federal and provincial representatives. The meeting decided to suspend the reopening of public transport, railways and domestic flight operations until a mutual consensus is reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the press conference, Minister for Industries Hammad Azhar listed the businesses, industries, and shops to be reopened, including both manufacturing units and shops of paint, aluminium, steel, sanitary wares, ceramics, tiles, pipe factories, electronic cables, and hardware shops. He said that all small markets in the residential schemes shall also remain operational \u2013 five days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-reopen-more-businesses-under-new-sops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to reopen more businesses under strict implementation of new SOPs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said that no shops will be allowed to remain open after the 5 pm deadline, except for medical stores. He said that the two-day break is in place to allow the security personnel (rangers\/police) to rest. The outpatient departments (OPDs) in hospitals shall also be resumed to enable treatments of patients suffering from other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Khan said that this ease of lockdown is being announced to facilitate the country\u2019s working class that is facing financial constraints. Furthermore, he urged people to follow preventive measures to avoid the contagion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday announced the phase-wise easing of the ongoing, countrywide lockdown from May 9 onward; along with a resumption of operations of various industries linked to the construction sector as well as shopping centres (for five days a week from sunrise to 5 pm), according to news sources. Read: Lockdown in Balochistan extended for another 14 days These developments were announced by the premiere following the National Coordination Committee (NCC) meeting, which was attended by both the federal and provincial representatives. The meeting decided to suspend the reopening of public transport, railways and domestic flight operations until a mutual consensus is reached. During the press conference, Minister for Industries Hammad Azhar listed the businesses, industries, and shops to be reopened, including both manufacturing units and shops of paint, aluminium, steel, sanitary wares, ceramics, tiles, pipe factories, electronic cables, and hardware shops. He said that all small markets in the residential schemes shall also remain operational \u2013 five days a week. Read: Govt to reopen more businesses under strict implementation of new SOPs Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said that no shops will be allowed to remain open after the 5 pm deadline,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15013],"tags":[28465,24276,28466,15023],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-construction","9":"tag-businesses-to-start-opening-gradually-from-tomorrow","10":"tag-construction-sector","11":"tag-minister-for-industries-hammad-azhar","12":"tag-slider","13":"cat-15012-id","14":"cat-15013-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Businesses to start opening gradually from tomorrow- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday announced the phase-wise easing of the ongoing, countrywide lockdown from May 9 onward\" \/>\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\/businesses-gradually-reopen-from-tomorrow-govt-announces-new-timings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Businesses to start opening gradually from tomorrow- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday announced the phase-wise easing of the ongoing, countrywide lockdown from May 9 onward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/businesses-gradually-reopen-from-tomorrow-govt-announces-new-timings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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