{"id":1141,"date":"2021-09-30T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2021-09-30T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:48:39","slug":"pakistan-imposes-strict-restrictions-for-non-vaccinated-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/paksitan\/pakistan-imposes-strict-restrictions-for-non-vaccinated-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan imposes strict restrictions for non-vaccinated travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Unvaccinated people to be barred from shopping malls, restaurants, domestic, international airline travel starting Friday<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (AA): Pakistani authorities on Thursday announced strict restrictions on non-vaccinated people in the country, including a ban on boarding domestic and international flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-vaccinated people will also not be allowed into educational institutions, shopping malls, or restaurants as of Friday, said the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), Pakistan&#8217;s anti-virus task force, urging people to get vaccinated before the Friday deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the NCOC relaxed restrictions in eight most-vaccinated cities, namely Quetta, Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Gilgit, and Skardu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asad Umar, who heads the nation\u2019s anti-virus strategy, said in a separate statement that the only way to overcome the coronavirus pandemic was to &#8220;get a high percentage of citizens vaccinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, as part of the strategy to reward citizens &amp; cities which vaccinate, there will be higher restrictions on cities with low level of vaccination &amp; on citizens who are not vaccinated,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umar also announced that children older than 12 would be eligible for vaccination and that an initiative would be launched to administer jabs in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan has expedited its inoculation drive in recent weeks, with over 80 million vaccine doses given to date and nearly one million shots in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 27.4 million people have been fully vaccinated so far, according to Health Ministry data, while the country recorded 1,742 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 1.24 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 39 additional fatalities, the death toll also increased to 27,729 and 1.16 million people have recovered.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unvaccinated people to be barred from shopping malls, restaurants, domestic, international airline travel starting Friday ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (AA): Pakistani authorities on Thursday announced strict restrictions on non-vaccinated people in the country, including a ban on boarding domestic and international flights. Non-vaccinated people will also not be allowed into educational institutions, shopping malls, or restaurants [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,82],"tags":[294,498,65,500,499],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-paksitan","tag-covid-19","tag-ncoc","tag-pakistan","tag-strict-restrictions","tag-unvaccinated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}