Pictures: Pakistan reopens restaurants, cinemas and gyms as COVID-19 counts drop

Pakistanis flocked to gyms, salons and restaurants that opened on Monday for the first time in five months after being shut to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Gyms opened in the city of Peshawar, with customers relieved they no longer had to train at home.

People arrive at a mall in Karachi, after government announced it would be lifting most of the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions after seeing new cases drop for several weeks.

The government allowed a partial resumption of commercial activities in May. Despite reopening the remaining businesses, it urged people take precautions including wearing masks.

UN official says Pakistan’s COVID-19 containment ‘good example for the world’. In this picture, people eat at a rooftop restaurant on Margalla Hills in Islamabad after government announced it would be lifting most of the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions after seeing new cases drop for several weeks.

A worker checks the temperature of children arriving with their mother to visit the zoo, following an ease in restrictions that had been imposed to help control the coronavirus, in Lahore.

A man wears a protective mask as he exercises at a public gym after Pakistan lifted lockdown restrictions, as the COVID-19 outbreak continues, in Peshawar.

People wear face masks and keep social distancing as they enter a cinema following an ease in restrictions that had been imposed to help control the coronavirus, in Peshawar.

People eat at a rooftop restaurant close to the historical Badshahi Mosque, following an ease in restrictions that had been imposed to help control the coronavirus, in Lahore.

People wear protective masks while watching a movie at a cinema after Pakistan lifted lockdown restrictions, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Peshawar.

A man wears a protective mask as he has a haircut at a barbershop in Karachi. The South Asian country has recorded more than 280,000 cases of COVID-19 and nearly 6,100 deaths, but has seen a slowing of numbers since June, when it recorded nearly 7,000 infections and 118 deaths in a single day.