Friday, May 29, 2020

Four doctors in Pakistan die from COVID-19 in past 24 hours

Four doctors in Pakistan die from COVID-19 in past 24 hours
Four doctors succumbed to the coronavirus in Pakistan over the past 24 hours as the country's infections surged past 64,000 on Friday.

Dr Sana Fatima, who worked at a private hospital in Lahore, a psychologist in Gunjrawala, Naeem Akhtar, Dr Khanzada who hailed from Afghanistan but was working in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Incharge BMC trauma centre Dr Zubair Zubair Ahmed, all succumbed to the infection.

Meanwhile, the Young Doctors Association said that several doctors are in self-quarantine at their homes and as a result, pose a threat to their families.

The YDA in the light of these fears demanded that a separate ward be set up for doctors in hospitals to save their families from the infection.

In addition, as many as 341 health care workers have been infected with COVID-19 across Punjab, according to a report issued by the directorate general health services issued on May 28.

The number is up from a day earlier when 241 medical professionals were tested positive for the deadly disease.

As per the latest report, 2,173 healthcare workers were suspected of being carriers of the virus. All the suspected have been tested and 15.6% have the virus. On the other hand, 84% have tested negative.

The positivity rate amongst doctors, nurses and other medics in the province has shot up from the previous 12.7% to 15.6%



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Schools in Sindh not to reopen from June 1

Schools in Sindh not to reopen from June 1
Keeping in view the growing number of COVID-19 cases in Sindh, the provincial government has decided not to reopen public and private educational institutions from 1st of June.

According to a notification issued by the school education and literacy department, all the educational institutions will continue to remain closed and will not be re-opened on 1st of June.

“The date for opening of schools will be announced keeping in situation of COVID-19.”

It said that students from class 1 to VIII will be promoted in their next classes.

Meanwhile, Board of Secondery Education Karachi (BSEK) has announced that examination forms for 9th and 10 can be submitted from 2nd of June with a fee of Rs 2000. A spokesperson of BSEK said that those candidates who could not submit their examination forms can take benefit from this opportunity.

Earlier on May 7, Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani had opposed reopening of educational institutes from 1st of June.

Talking to journalists, Saeed Ghani had said, “We will convene a meeting of the steering committee for education within a week and it will decide the date for reopening of the educational institutes.”

He had maintained, “It’s my guess that perhaps it won’t be possible for us to open schools from June 1st owing to the situation arising out of COID-19 pandemic.”

On the occasion, the minister had said that the novel coronavirus had nothing to do with PTI or PPP, adding that no one should do political point scoring on the issue.



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Second Indian spy drone shot down along LoC within three days: ISPR

Second Indian spy drone shot down along LoC
Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spy drone after it intruded into Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from across the restive Line of Control (LoC), the military’s media wing said on Friday, in the second such incident to have occurred within three days.

"Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter which came from Kanzalwan Sector, intruded 700 metres on Pakistan side of #LoC in Nekrun Sector," the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a tweet.

On Wednesday, Pakistani troops had shot down an Indian quadcopter in Rakhchikri sector after it had intruded 650 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC.

In a similar incident last month, another Indian quadcopter was shot down by Pakistani troops after it violated Pakistan's airspace in Sankh district.

According to military sources, Indian military uses quadcopters for aerial photography of Pakistani posts along the LoC as part of its intelligence-gathering operations and target selection before carrying out cross-LoC shelling.

Last year, several Indian reconnaissance drones were shot down by Pakistani troops in different areas along the LoC including three in Rakhchikri sector alone in a short span of time between March and May.

The heavily militarised LoC that splits the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan frequently witnesses skirmishes and artillery duels, causing mostly civilian losses, in a serious breach of the Ceasefire Agreement that the two armies had signed in November 2003.

On the other hand, tensions between China and India have also escalated along their de facto border in Ladakh, which New Delhi made a ‘union territory’ after separating it from Indian-occupied Kashmir under its controversial August 5, 2019, move.



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Faryal Mehmood, Daniyal Raheal tied the knot in stunning nikkah ceremony

Pakistani actors Faryal Mehmood and Daniyal Raheal
Pakistani actors Faryal Mehmood and Daniyal Raheal have tied the knot in a stunning nikkah ceremony.

Continuing the streak of getting hitched during the lockdown, the latest couple on the block is Faryal and Daniyal, whose pictures from their beautiful nuptials are taking the internet by storm.

Daasi actress Faryal, taking to Instagram, gave a sneak peek inside the event wherein she and beau Daniyal can be seen donning traditional wedding attires.

Shortly after, congratulations started pouring in from various celebrities like Wajahat Rauf, Sohail Javed and Aashir Wajahat for the newly-married couple.

Faryal and Daniyal have often indulged in PDA on their social media handles and posted loved-up photos with each other.

The duo even celebrated the occasion of Eid together a few days ago.

 



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COVID-19: Pakistan's confirmed cases jumped to 64,028, recovery rate rose to 22,305

Coronavirus Cases
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 64,028 on Thursday after new infections were confirmed in the country.

The province-wise break up of the total number of cases are as follows:

Total confirmed cases: 64,028

• Sindh: 25,309

• Punjab: 22,964

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 8,842

• Balochistan: 3,928

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 2,100

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 658

• AJK: 227

Deaths: 1,317

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 432

• Sindh: 396

• Punjab: 410

• Balochistan: 43

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 9

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 22

• AJK: 5

More than 5.8 million people have been reported infected with the novel coronavirus globally and over 359,000 have died, according to a Reuters tally.



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Waqar Younis takes major step, quits social media

Pakistan's bowling coach Waqar Younis
Pakistan's bowling coach Waqar Younis has announced to quit social media on Friday after an obscene video was liked from his verified Twitter handle to which he claimed that his account was hacked.

"I have to say with regret that some 'Allah ka Banda' hacked my Twitter account. When I woke up this morning, I found out that an obscene video had been liked from the account," said the former pacer in a Twitter video, lamenting that this has caused immense embarrassment and agony to him [Waqar Younis] and his family. 

Extending apologies to anybody who got affected by the mishap, Younis said that he always believed that social media is an effective way of communication but after his account repetitively got hacked in the past, he had finally decided to call it a quit.

"My family is dear to me, therefore, I have left all social media platforms," he maintained.

The microblogging site was set abuzz on Thursday with a circulating screenshot of former Pakistani cricketer's Twitter profile where he had appeared to like a pornographic content from his account.

Younis had eventually unliked the video, but not before the Twitter users and fans had already taken screenshots of the tweet which went viral overnight.



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COVID-19: Pakistan's confirmed cases jumped to 64,028, recovery rate rose to 22,305

Coronavirus Cases
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 64,028 on Thursday after new infections were confirmed in the country.

The province-wise break up of the total number of cases are as follows:

Total confirmed cases: 64,028

• Sindh: 25,309

• Punjab: 22,964

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 8,842

• Balochistan: 3,928

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 2,100

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 658

• AJK: 227

Deaths: 1,317

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 432

• Sindh: 396

• Punjab: 410

• Balochistan: 43

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 9

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 22

• AJK: 5

More than 5.8 million people have been reported infected with the novel coronavirus globally and over 359,000 have died, according to a Reuters tally.



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Islamabad court dismisses Gill’s bail plea in sedition case

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