In a media briefing on Thursday, the justice, crime prevention and security cluster announced measures to enforce the new regulations under level 3.
“Under level 3 the responsibility of preventing the spread of the disease will be in the hands of every member of society.
“The president announced some hotspots around the country where the infection rate is increasing rapidly. In these districts and metropolitan areas, the JCPS Cluster would conduct patrols, roadblocks, and vehicle check points at the hotspot areas.”The main tasks of deployed forces still included healthcare services, engineering capabilities and “lockdown enforcement elements”.
During level 3, Home Affairs would be offering the essential services registration of births, reissuing of birth certificates, late registration of birth , marriage services, death certificates, issuing temporary ID certificates, collection of IDs applied for prior to the lockdown, and the issuing of passports only for people involved in the cross-border transportation of essential goods and medicines.
During the disaster period, the JCPS cluster had received several allegations related to the corruption of COVID-19 relief efforts earmarked for poor communities. In response to these allegations, the cluster developed a collaboration framework to ensure prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and recovery of stolen assets and funds.
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