Govt to ease lockdown further: PM Imran

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Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that the government is going to reopen many other businesses by further easing lockdown restrictions and said the government will implement the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) devised for different sectors with the help of one million Corona Relief Tiger Force (CRTF) volunteers.

“We have to open more sectors to mitigate the miseries of poor and daily wage earners by gradually easing restrictions of lockdown,” the prime minister said while addressing the CRTF volunteers along with some cabinet members.

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