{"id":159215,"date":"2020-06-25T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=159215"},"modified":"2020-06-26T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:44:08","slug":"smart-lockdown-strategy-in-hot-spot-areas-paying-dividends-shibli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2020\/06\/smart-lockdown-strategy-in-hot-spot-areas-paying-dividends-shibli\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart lockdown strategy, in hot-spot areas, paying dividends: Shibli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-159215-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Federal-Minister-for-Information-Shibli-Faraz-talks-to-media.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Federal-Minister-for-Information-Shibli-Faraz-talks-to-media.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Federal-Minister-for-Information-Shibli-Faraz-talks-to-media.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 ISLAMABAD, Jun 25 (APP):Minister of Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Fazaz Thursday said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">smart lockdown strategy had started paying dividends as sealing of multiple<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">areas did help in curbing the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The minister said :\u201cImplementation of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">in letter and spirit is sole option to curtail the infection rate in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Talking to media after visiting Sector G-7\/2, sealed by ICT Administration to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">stem virus spread and ensure public safety, Shibli said he had specially come<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">to the locality to assess the ground situation, following Prime Minister Imran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Khan\u2019s instruction in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said smart lockdown had been imposed in specific localities, that had<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">been declared hot-spot on the basis of statistics by Islamabad Capital Territory<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(ICT) Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said special arrangements had been made by the Local Administration in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">sealed areas to facilitate the residents with regard to provision of medicines and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">other grocery items.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said the local administration had effectively been monitoring the situation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">in these areas and added Additional Deputy Commissioner-General Omer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Randawa gave a detailed briefing on the smart lockdown strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shibli said he was informed that the situation in sector G-9 had markedly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">improved with a significant decline in the number of new COVID cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He appealed to the masses to strictly follow the SOPs and adopt key<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">principles &#8211; social-distancing and mask-wearing &#8211; to ensure their themselves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">and others from the virus. \u201cSo far, no specific medicine is available in the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">market for treatment of the coronavirus, thus social distancing is the only<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">effective way to combat the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To a query, he said the assessment of specific media persons about the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">instability of the government, was storm in a teacup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said the prime minister Imran Khan, deliberated upon the budget,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">coronavirus and other major issues in his National Assembly speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said it was only Prime Minister Imran Khan who could tackle current<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">challenges.\u00a0 \u201cThe nation should be proud of such leadership which has been<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">handling the crisis quite adeptly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also dispelled the fake reports of resignation of Chaudhry Fawad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hussain from Ministry of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">VNS Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 ISLAMABAD, Jun 25 (APP):Minister of Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Fazaz Thursday said smart lockdown strategy had started paying dividends as sealing of multiple areas did help in curbing the spread of coronavirus. \u00a0\u00a0 The minister said :\u201cImplementation of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) in letter and spirit is sole option to curtail the infection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","post_format-post-format-video"],"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Federal-Minister-for-Information-Shibli-Faraz-talks-to-media.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3-124-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159218,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159215\/revisions\/159218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}