COVID-19: PTF frowns at breach of inter-state travel ban, security agents' connivance

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COVID-19: PTF frowns at breach of inter-state travel ban, security agents' connivance
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The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has expressed concerns over reports that security agents had....

The Presidential Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic has expressed concerns over reports that security agents had been compromising the enforcement of the ban on inter-state travels.

He also clarified that the four weeks of ban extension on air travels in the country, which took effect from Thursday evening, would however come with an exemption for flights considered to be of essential nature. High level of non-compliance with the ban on inter-state travels . This resulted in a high number of vehicles finding their way across many state borders despite the curfew/ border restrictions; Lack of respect for timing and the curfew also resulted in heavy traffic gridlock where many motorists spent the night following the enforcement of the curfew;

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