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ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Tuesday set up a special cell for coordination on coronavirus and introduced a number of social distancing measures. The newly-established cell, headed by Special Secretary (Admin) Moazzam Ahmed Khan, would liaise with diplomatic corps in the country as well as with Pakistani missions abroad, the FO said. The social distancing measures introduced by the FO …

• Restaurants, shopping malls, public parks, govt offices closed in province • Out-patient departments of hospitals also shut for 15 days • Inter-city bus services suspended from Friday ISLAMABAD: As the countrywide tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rose to 212 on Tuesday, the Sindh government made a drastic decision under which restaurants, shopping malls, food streets, public parks and government offices, …

The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) — in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus — has made it compulsory for all international passengers arriving in the country to provide a copy of the test result for COVID-19. The number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 237 on Tuesday as Prime Minister Imran urged the nation to …

• Islamabad puts confirmed cases at 94, but with Sindh’s figure tally tops 183 • 14 labs designated for virus testing ISLAMABAD: As the coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan started to spread its tentacles in further regions of the country on Monday, central and provincial authorities appeared to be embroiled in a war over how many people have so far tested positive. …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has called an emergency meeting of the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (NJPMC) on Thursday (March 19) to take stock of the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and devise a strategy for the courts. Presided over by the chief justice, the NJPMC meeting will be held at the Supreme Court building at 4pm on …

LAHORE: The number of confirmed patients of coronavirus may increase substantially in Punjab as some 780 suspected patients have been kept in quarantine at a university in Dera Ghazi Khan and most of them show typical symptoms of the disease. The apprehension was shared with Dawn by an official privy to the latest situation in Punjab. He said these suspected patients (all …

KARACHI: As the number of coronavirus cases in the province swelled to 150, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday apprehended further increase in the number of such patients across the country in future. Of the 150 reported cases in Sindh, according to a spokesperson for the Sindh health department, 119 arrived in Sukkur from Taftan, 30 are …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said he feared the new coronavirus would devastate economies of developing nations and warned the developed world economies to “prepare to write off the debts” of the world’s poorer countries. In an interview with The Associated Press, Prime Minister Imran said: “My worry is poverty and hunger.” “The world community has to think of some …

Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid on Tuesday confirmed that the number of coronavirus cases in the province had risen to 6 — pushing the country’s toll to 193 — while also warning citizens not to treat this period as a “holiday”. “Our job right now is to mitigate [the spread]. This is why a medical emergency was declared in the …

Adviser to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Ajmal Wazir on Tuesday urged citizens to not panic after the province reported 15 cases of coronavirus in a single go a day earlier. He was speaking at a news conference in Peshawar. “There is no need to be worried but precautions are very necessary. Avoid going out, stay away from people …