Cold wave likely to hit Karachi in second week of December

The met office has predicted a cold wave in Karachi from the second week of December,reported on Saturday.

Minimum temperature has been recorded 17.5 Celsius in Karachi today as northeastern winds blowing in the city with nine kilometers per hour speed.
The city experiencing partly cloudy weather while a cool night is expected tonight.

According to Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the country will witness drastic fall in temperatures from December 15.

A frosty wave will affect various parts of Pakistan from December 25 or 26, resulting in drop of Mercury to one or two degree Celsius to minus-one or two in various parts, according to the weather office.

In the last week of year 2020, Siberian winds are expected to enter in the country on December 28 or 29 affecting the normal routine life. The cold wave could break 52 years record of the lowest temperature in the country, accord to the weather forecast.

Cold and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country today, the PMD said in its forecast.

The weather will remain partly cloudy with chances of rain (snowfall over hills) in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Potohar region and upper Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa, according to the met office.

Fog is likely to prevail in few plain areas of Punjab during morning hours, the weather depaertment said.

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309 coronavirus patients are on ventilators across country: NCOC

202 out of 309 patients were put on ventilators in different medical facilities across Pakistan during the second wave of coronavirus pandemic, reported on Saturday.

The statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) stated that 202 COVID-19 patients are on ventilators in three provincial capitals including 84 in Punjab’s capital Lahore, 73 in Sindh’s capital Karachi and 45 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) capital Peshawar.
Moreover, 45 patients were put on ventilators in Multan, 20 in Rawalpindi and 39 in Islamabad. No patient from Balochistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) is on the ventilator, the NCOC said.

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The positivity rate of COVID-19 cases has ascended up to 7.59 per cent and 2,441 patients are in critical condition. The highest rate of COVID-19 positive cases was recorded in Abbottabad up to 17.57 per cent, whereas, GB has the lowest rate which stood at 3.92 pc.

It added that the other parts of the country have also witnessed the rise in coronavirus cases as the positivity rate in AJK reached up to 11.24 per cent and 5.27 pc in the federal capital Islamabad.

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Trump campaign files election lawsuit in Georgia, suffers more legal defeats

Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court on Friday seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing his loss that have so far gone nowhere.

The Trump campaign said in a statement its new lawsuit would include sworn statements from Georgia residents alleging fraud.
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, like Trump, and other state officials have said repeatedly they have found no evidence of widespread fraud in the Nov. 3 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump’s team and various individuals backing him have suffered a string of legal defeats around the country, including in cases filed in Nevada and Wisconsin that sought court orders to reverse those states’ election results.

President-elect Biden won the election with 306 Electoral College votes – against the 270 required – to Trump’s 232.

A district judge in Nevada on Friday dismissed a case brought by would-be Republican presidential electors and said they must pay defendants’ legal costs after failing “to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate” any of the lawsuit’s claims.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision declined to act on a case that sought to have the court nullify the presidential election in the state and pave the way for the state legislature to choose Wisconsin’s 10 presidential electors.

“Such a move would appear to be unprecedented in American history,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote in his concurring opinion of four justices issued on Friday.

Trump’s campaign has spent nearly $9 million on its unsuccessful bid to overturn the results of the election, including nearly $2.3 million to lawyers and consultants.

The campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised at least $207.5 million since Election Day, much of it from solicitations asking for donations to an “Official Election Defense Fund”.

The fine print made clear most of the money would go to other priorities through Trump’s new political action committee, which could fuel his future political endeavors.

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Fog causes disruption in flight schedule at Lahore airport

Several domestic and international flights were cancelled and suspended due to foggy weather at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, on Saturday.

The flight schedule was disrupted following the foggy situation in Lahore which led to cancellation and suspension of several domestic and international flights today.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight numbers 304 and 306 coming from Karachi have been cancelled while the flight number 307 departing to Karachi was also cancelled.

A private airline’s flight departing to Dubai from Lahore airport was cancelled as well followed by the cancellation of foreign airlines’ flights from Muscat and Dubai.

The outbound flights to Istanbul, London, Kuwait, Doha, Abu Dhabi were also delayed for departure besides the arrival of other flights of foreign airlines.

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Covid-19: Pakistan records 3,119 new cases in last 24 hrs

Pakistan has recorded 3,119 new cases and 44 deaths due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours,reported on Saturday.

In the past 24 hours, 44 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,303. 2,224 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 2,441 patients are in critical condition including 46 reported within a day.
The total count of active cases is 52,359 and the positivity rate of COVID-19 cases reaches up to 7.58 per cent as compared to yesterday’s record up to 7.3 per cent.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), with fresh inclusion of the infections in the country the national tally of cases now currently stands at 413,191.

A total of 41,115 tests were conducted across the country during this period. 2,224 people have recovered from the deadly disease while 5,713,341 samples have been tested thus far.

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Fog causes disruption in flight schedule at Lahore airport

Several domestic and international flights were cancelled and suspended due to foggy weather at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, on Saturday.

The flight schedule was disrupted following the foggy situation in Lahore which led to cancellation and suspension of several domestic and international flights today.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight numbers 304 and 306 coming from Karachi have been cancelled while the flight number 307 departing to Karachi was also cancelled.

A private airline’s flight departing to Dubai from Lahore airport was cancelled as well followed by the cancellation of foreign airlines’ flights from Muscat and Dubai.

The outbound flights to Istanbul, London, Kuwait, Doha, Abu Dhabi were also delayed for departure besides the arrival of other flights of foreign airlines.

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Covid-19: Pakistan records 3,119 new cases in last 24 hrs

Pakistan has recorded 3,119 new cases and 44 deaths due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours,reported on Saturday.

In the past 24 hours, 44 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,303. 2,224 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 2,441 patients are in critical condition including 46 reported within a day.
The total count of active cases is 52,359 and the positivity rate of COVID-19 cases reaches up to 7.58 per cent as compared to yesterday’s record up to 7.3 per cent.

According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), with fresh inclusion of the infections in the country the national tally of cases now currently stands at 413,191.

A total of 41,115 tests were conducted across the country during this period. 2,224 people have recovered from the deadly disease while 5,713,341 samples have been tested thus far.

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