The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to formmonitoring teams at federal, provincial, and district levels to ensure theimplementation of coronavirus SOPs from May 8-16.

The NCOC, in a statement, said the development came during a meetingchaired by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and SpecialInitiatives Asad Umar and co-chaired by National Coordinator LieutenantGeneral Hamood Uz Zaman Khan. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister onHealth Dr Faisal Sultan was also present at the meeting.

During this period, all businesses and shops will remain closed with fewexceptions like food outlets, grocery stores, pharmacies, petrol pumps andbakeries etc., the forum said, adding it was informed that there would be acomplete ban on tourism for both locals and outsiders.

“All tourist resorts, formal and informal picnic spots, public parks,shopping malls; all hotels and restaurants in/around tourist/ picnic spotsto remain closed,” it said.

“Travel nodes leading to tourist spots [will also remain] closed; focus on[the areas of] Murree, Galiyat, Swat-Kalam, Sea View/beaches and theNorthern Areas [will remain],” stated the statement.’SOP compliance better since Pakistan Army’s deployment’

Meanwhile, Umar has noted a significant improvement in the implementationof coronavirus SOP compliance since the stronger enforcement measuresincluding military deployment took place across the country.

In a tweet, the minister pointed out that national average compliance hasdoubled from 34% on April 25 to 68% on May 3.

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