Staff Reporter
Peshawar
During the month of Ramzan, the shops of essential commodities of daily use already exempted from lock down will be closed by 4:00 PM every day. These essential shops including grocery stores, vegetables, fruits and milk shops etc will remain opened from early morning to 4:00 PM. The decision will also be applicable to restaurants for home delivery and take away services only. However, medical stores will be exempted from the decision and will remain opened 24/7. The decision will remain enforced from today.
This was decided in a meeting of Provincial Task Force on COVID-19 held here on Friday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair. Briefing the media about the decision of Task Force meeting, Provincial Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra and Advisor Ajmal Wazir informed that forum had also decided to make the use of face mask in public places as mandatory adding that for next one week people will be persuaded and educated to use face mask and after that the decision would be implemented strictly.
The meeting has also decided that implementation of social distancing and other precautionary measures in the exempted shops would be monitored closely and shops not implementing social distancing measures would be sealed immediately.
