{"id":66706,"date":"2020-06-16T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=66706"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:56:23","slug":"smart-lockdown-planned-in-20-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smart-lockdown-planned-in-20-cities.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 containment: Smart lockdown planned in 20 cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Monday announced its decision to impose the government\u2019s \u2018smart lockdown\u2019 arrangement in 20 major cities to control the recent spike observed in the number of coronavirus infections and casualties, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-several-areas-lahore-undergo-complete-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19: Several areas in Lahore to undergo complete lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCOC held a meeting under the chairmanship of Minister for Planning Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Asad Umar. The attendees undertook a comprehensive review of potential COVID-19-infected clusters and hotspots countrywide \u2013 and identified 20 cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-sindh-govt-mulls-reimposing-strict-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19: Sindh govt mulls re-imposing strict lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cities that were identified for an increased number of cases include Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujarat, Swat, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Ghotki, Khairpur, Larkana, Malakand and Mardan. Various areas of these cities where the coronavirus cases are currently escalating at alarming rates are being sealed to curb the virus from spreading and in turn \u2018flatten the curve\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Monday announced its decision to impose the government\u2019s \u2018smart lockdown\u2019 arrangement in 20 major cities to control the recent spike observed in the number of coronavirus infections and casualties, according to news sources. Read: COVID-19: Several areas in Lahore to undergo complete lockdown The NCOC held a meeting under the chairmanship of Minister for Planning Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Asad Umar. The attendees undertook a comprehensive review of potential COVID-19-infected clusters and hotspots countrywide \u2013 and identified 20 cities. Read: COVID-19: Sindh govt mulls re-imposing strict lockdown The cities that were identified for an increased number of cases include Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujarat, Swat, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Ghotki, Khairpur, Larkana, Malakand and Mardan. Various areas of these cities where the coronavirus cases are currently escalating at alarming rates are being sealed to curb the virus from spreading and in turn \u2018flatten the curve\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31886,26781,31887,31888],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-covid-19-2","8":"tag-smart-lockdown","9":"tag-smart-lockdown-city-names","10":"tag-smart-lockdown-planned-in-20-cities"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smart lockdown planned in 20 cities - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The cities that were identified for an increased number of cases include Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi,\" \/>\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\/smart-lockdown-planned-in-20-cities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smart lockdown planned in 20 cities - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The cities that were identified for an increased number of cases include Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smart-lockdown-planned-in-20-cities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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