Balochistan not to allow public transport resumption

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The Balochistan government has decided to not allow the resumption of public transport in the province and discouraged people from travelling in trains to halt the fast transmission of coronavirus.

A high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Jam Khan Alyani expressed its serious reservations over the opening of road transport and rail service, saying, “resuming transport without SOPs would cause the spread of Covid-19 in villages and remote parts of the province” and the government had therefore decided to not resume inter-city and inter-provincial public transport.

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