Pakistan PM Imran Khan hints at lockdown

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday indicated that the government might go for complete lockdown in coronavirus-hit cities and stressed the need for smooth supplies of food items during lockdown. "The Prime Minister has directed that food supplies should be improved if we go for complete lockdown," said federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry in a press conference after weekly cabinet meeting. The cabinet meeting, presided over by the Prime Minister, decided that Iran would be asked to export oxygen to Pakistan for COVID-19 patients on humanitarian basis by relaxing the ban the neighbouring country had imposed on oxygen export due to the alarming situation of COVID-19 it was facing, the Dawn reported. Keeping in view the COVID-19 catastrophe in India, the meeting also decided to increase local production of oxygen by 250 tonnes per day and reduce use of oxygen in some industries. On this, Minister for Industries Khusro Bakhtiyar is holding an important meeting on Wednesday with all stakeholders. (IANS)

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