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Coronavirus infections and fatalities in Pakistan have ballooned up in the past week after lockdown restrictions were eased for select industries. Punjab remains the worst-hit province with its cases crossing the 5,000 mark, followed by Sindh, KP, Balochistan, AJK/GB, and Islamabad. Over 3,000 people have also recovered from Covid-19 so far in the country.
A day after the countrywide lockdown was extended to two more weeks, the government announced on Saturday that it would also keep the international flight operations suspended till May 15 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Civil Aviation Authority in a tweet said, “…remaining provisions as applicable to the suspension of Int flights reflected in previous orders remain unchanged.”
Govt officials foresee the country’s virus peak to arrive mid-May when Pakistan could see as many as 20,000 cases and 5,000 deaths. But, the World Health Organization has warned that infections in Pakistan could surge to 200,000 by mid-July if effective measures are not taken to curb the spread.
Here are the latest updates:
Chairman NDMA Lt. General Muhammad Afzal confirmed on Monday that the country can now conduct 30,000 tests daily.
“We will increase our testing capacity in the coming days. Right now we can conduct 30,000 tests daily,” he told the media.
He added, “In the coming days our labs will be able to around 30,000 to 40,000 tests daily.”
The chairman added that another consignment of relief aid arrived from China this morning. “More relief aid will be coming in the next few days,” he added.
-Geo
Children in China's two most important cities go back to school after more than three months at home, as #coronavirus restrictions ease and governments around the world begin charting a path out of the pandemic lockdown https://t.co/WZkWqOKM8t pic.twitter.com/dduiG8OqjQ
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 27, 2020
AFP: New York, which has ground to a halt to stop the coronavirus pandemic, may start reopening manufacturing and construction after May 15, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.
Cuomo, however, said that any easing of measures would take place first in the north of the state and not in the New York City metropolitan region, by far the hardest-hit area in the United States.
“The regions that would be more likely able to open sooner would be the upstate regions,” Cuomo told reporters. “Downstate New York is going to be more complicated.”
Holding a briefing with updates on #Coronavirus. Watch Live: https://t.co/unp9ARDSIL
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 26, 2020
Coronavirus cases around the world topped 2.9 million on Sunday and deaths approached the 203,000 mark, well over half of them in Europe, according to a tally based on official data.
The daily toll in Western countries appeared to be leveling off and even falling in hard-hit countries, with numbers out of Italy, Spain, and France stabilizing in recent days.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced the second phase of Italy’s lockdown will begin from May 4.
Under the plans, bars and restaurants will be able to provide takeaway as well as delivery, and people will be allowed to move around their own regions, but not beyond. Factories and construction sites will also be able to resume work, providing they respected social distancing and other health protocols.
China’s National Health Commission said on Monday the mainland had confirmed just three new cases of coronavirus and no new deaths.
Of the new cases, two were among people returned from overseas, while the other was in the northern province of Heilongjiang bordering Russia.
-AlJazeera
View this post on InstagramSouth Koreans wear masks and sit according to social distancing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus (COVID-19), as they prepare for an insurance planner examination of General Insurance Association of Korea at Seokyeong University playground on April 25, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea has called for expanded public participation in social distancing, as the country witnesses a wave of community spread and imported infections leading to a resurgence in new cases of COVID-19. (Footage by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) @chung_photo
Sweden, whose softer approach to combatting the new coronavirus has garnered international attention, said Sunday it was ordering the closure of five Stockholm bars and restaurants that failed to respect social distancing guidelines.
The Scandinavian country has allowed schools for under-16s, cafes, bars, restaurants and businesses to stay open while urging people and businesses to respect social distancing guidelines.
Restaurants and bars are only allowed to provide table service, with tables spaced one to two meters apart to prevent overcrowding.
-AFP
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported https://t.co/UGwEg8zyTH
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 26, 2020
In Pakistan with high mountains like Switzerland, the spread of the coronavirus is on the rise. We show solidarity with the people of Pakistan and wish them much strength. #hope #Zermatt #Matterhornhttps://t.co/qFjiKuZNsE pic.twitter.com/DoEmZnEIIr
— Zermatt – Matterhorn (@zermatt_tourism) April 25, 2020
Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.
Iran, one of the Middle Eastern countries hardest hit by the pandemic, will be divided up into white, yellow and red regions based on the number of infections and deaths, Rouhani said, according to the presidency’s website.
Activities in each region will be restricted accordingly, so an area that has been consistently free of infections or deaths will be labelled white and mosques could be reopened and Friday prayers resumed, Rouhani said.
-Reuters
The new coronavirus appears to be causing sudden strokes in adults in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise terribly ill, doctors reported Wednesday.
They said patients may be unwilling to call 911 because they have heard hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.
There’s growing evidence that Covid-19 infection can cause the blood to clot in unusual ways, and stroke would be an expected consequence of that.
-CNN
The emergency department of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) — one of Karachi’s biggest public hospitals — has been sealed after a doctor tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
A senior official at the hospital told Dawn.com that the chief medical officer (CMO) at ASH tested positive for Covid-19.
Dr Saleem Shaikh, additional police surgeon at the hospital added that the emergency department was sealed around 3pm after the doctor’s test came back positive.
-Dawn
Tomorrow, the Ministry of Industries & Production shall table in ECC the phase one of:
'چھوٹا کاروبار امدادی پیکج'
Millions of small businesses and Industries shall benefit from this package once it is approved by ECC and Cabinet. 1/2
— Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) April 26, 2020
Shrieks of joy rang out Sunday in the streets of Spain as children were allowed to leave their homes for the first time in six weeks, while residents of Italy and France were eager to hear their leaders’ plans on easing some of the world’s strictest coronavirus lockdowns.
The sound of children shouting and the rattle of bikes on the pavement after the 44-day seclusion of Spain’s youngest citizens offered a first taste of a gradual return to normal life in the country that has the second-highest number of confirmed infections, behind the United States.
“This is wonderful! I can’t believe it has been six weeks,” Susana Sabaté, a mother of 3-year-old twin boys, said in Barcelona. “My boys are very active. Today when they saw the front door and we gave them their scooters, they were thrilled.”
-AP
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