Bhara Kahu, Shahzad Town unsealed by ICT

The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration on Monday unsealed those areas of the capital from where maximum number of people was earlier tested positive for coronavirus following the advice of the Ministry of Health Services.
The administration unsealed Bhara Kahu and Shahzad Town after 17 days after the instructions of the Ministry of Health Services.
The ICT Administration had sealed both the areas after several members of Tableeghi Jamaat stationed at Makki Masjid located in Ghulam Muhammad Abad area of Bhara Kahu as well as some confirmed cases of the COVID-19 were reported in Shahzad Town.
A senior official said that only a street adjacent to Makki Masjid and a street in Shehzad Town from where virus cases were reported will remained sealed. Meanwhile, the ICT Administration along with Bahria Town management continued disinfection spray in the capital city.
The number of coronavirus cases rose in the federal capital on Monday to 82 bringing the country's tally of the COVID-19 infections to 3,277, according to the official data.
According to the official data, Punjab has 1,933 cases followed by Sindh 1,493, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 405, Balochistan 191, Gilgit-Baltistan 210, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) 15. Till the filling of this report, 257 coronavirus patients have so far recovered, and 50 have died across the country.
Like other parts of the country, majority of the shops in the major markets in both the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi including Aabpara, Karachi Company, Peshawar Mor, F-6 and F-7, I-8, G-10 Markaz, Commercial Market, Raja Bazaar, Pindora as well as several other smaller markets remain closed.
Shops including medical stores/pharmacies, bakeries, meat, milk, and grocery stores remained open. The public transport has been banned, however, taxi drivers as well as some pick-up drivers managed to run their vehicles on traditional routes.
The district administration teams of both the cities continued price checking at various markets as well as at the fruit and Sabzi Mandi. During inspections, several shopkeepers were penalised and heavy fines were imposed.
Meanwhile, Barrister Shahzad Akbar, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, said that following spread of the coronavirus, the district administration, police and the Rangers had played an effective role.
"The traders of Islamabad have also played an important role in the current situation", he said, while talking to reporters at Police Lines headquarters. About the suicide of a man outside the Prime Minister's House, Akbar said that action would be taken against those found involved after receiving a final inquiry report.