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District Administration Lahore has introduced 16 vehicles as the "Initial Diagnostic Unit for Corona Virus" in 9 zones for screening of general citizens.
The Health and Population staff will be present in these mobile diagnostic units



 
Lt Col of Pakistan Army and a police officer saluting a doctor who is engaged in battle against COVID 19.
In this picture we are watching 3 heroes, Real heroes, who always fight for the nation at front lines.

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All three, whose names have not been disclosed, are based in Lahore, the capital of the eastern province of Punjab.

Why names of holy cows weren't disclosed when these prestitues publish and broadcast private information of others?
 
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Spread of Covid-19 in country: Zulfi & others issued notices
By TERENCE J SIGAMONY on March 27, 2020
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday issued notices to secretary Interior, Zulfi Bukhari and others in a petition seeking constituting a high-level judicial commission to ascertain the responsibility of the people who failed to perform their obligations resulting in the increase of coronavirus patients in the country.

A singe bench of IHC Justice Aamer Farooq heard the petition moved by Civil Society of Pakistan through Ihtesham Ahmad and directed the respondents to inform the court about the steps taken by them to halt the spread of coronavirus in the country.

The civil society filed the petition through its counsel Tariq Asad Advocate and cited the Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Interior, Prime Minister through his Principal Secretary, Sayed Zulfikar Abbas Bukhari alias Zulfi Bukhari, advisor to the prime minister, Director General ISPR, and Director General National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as respondents.

According to the petitioner, the federal government has failed to exercise their diplomatic privileges to convince the Government of Iran to keep “Zaireen (pilgrims)", and provide them facilities required in the prevailing situation.

He added that consequently the zaireen were shifted to different cities of Pakistan like Multan and Sukhur.

He maintained that since at that time, there was no patient of coronavirus in Pakistan but after they were shifted from Iran, the virus was transferred to other citizens and spread.

The petitions said, “As revealed by media, Zulfi Bukhari/respondent No 3 played the role to allow the zaireen to cross the border and enter into Pakistan. Thus, he used political influence to allow the thousands of the pilgrims to enter Pakistan through the Taftan border without completing the 14-day quarantine process in Iran."

It added, “He rejected the allegations in a tweet and slammed the miscreants for inflaming unnecessary controversy at a time of national emergency. But the allegation was true and undeniable. Several pilgrims were tested positive for coronavirus after they returned homes following a mandatory 14-day quarantine stay in the tent city in Taftan."

The petitioner said, it has been recently further decided to shift 3,000 out of 9,000 zaireen from Iran to Faisalabad city and keep them in the building of Agricultural University.

“It reveals that the federal government intends to spread coronavirus in Faisalabad and all the other cities of Pakistan evenly as there is so far no sign of any suspected patient of the virus in Faisalabad; hence it is apprehended to spread it therein also," he maintained.

He continued that the government, unfortunately, instead of controlling the ailment is promoting it, to spread in all the cities, which are so far not infected. It is, therefore, advisable not to shift the zaireen from Iran in the congested areas of other cities and be kept in remote areas to protect others; hence in case they are shifted to Faisalabad, Jhang or other cities, the respondents would be responsible and the effected people shall have right to sue them in the competent courts of law.

He asserted that the government had failed to take proper measures in time to control the ailment.

Therefore, he prayed to the court to direct the respondents to constitute a high-level Judicial Commission to look into the matter and place the responsibility of recklessness as to who failed to perform their legal and constitutional obligations resulting in the increase of the patients and failing to take necessary measures in time.

He also requested the court to direct the respondents not to shift the zaireen from Iran in the congested areas of other cities like Faisalabad or Jhang and be kept in remote areas to protect others; hence in case they are shifted to Faisalabad or other cities, the respondents would be responsible for it.

He further requested to direct the respondents particularly respondent No 5 to seal Taftan border strictly prohibiting the entry of zaireen from Iran and direct the respondents particularly the respondent No 4 and 5 to take speedy measures to construct temporary buildings at Taftan borders completing within week's time and keep the zaireen there till their quarantine and treatment before shifting to the cities.

https://www.brecorder.com/2020/03/2...id-19-in-country-zulfi-others-issued-notices/
 
Areas which report virus cases to be sealed off

Ikram Junaid
March 27, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The federal and provincial governments decided to seal the areas where new cases of coronavirus are reported, as the addition of over 100 cases from across the country on Thursday took the total number of confirmed patients of Covid-19 to 1,190.

After detection of some new cases, Bhara Kahu, Chak Shahzad and Ramsha Colony in Islamabad; some parts of Sadiqabad, a part of Dhoke Kashmirian and B Block of Satellite Town in Rawalpindi; and Mohrah Akkrah near Sohawa and Manga village in Charsadda have been sealed.

Vehicles, except those involved in freight transportation, have been banned on highways and motorways.

As many as 30,000 boxes of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are being prepared by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) which will be given to health professionals treating Covid-19 patients.

Moreover, the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) has attained the capability to produce 25,000 face masks and 10,000 litres of hand sanitiser on a daily basis.

Speaking at a press conference after a meeting of the National Coordination Committee, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said that it was decided to ensure availability of PPEs to every health professional performing coronavirus-related duties.

NDMA Chairman Lt Gen Mohammad Afzal said orders had been placed to purchase kits for one million tests for Covid-19.

Meanwhile, district authorities in Jhelum have announced a lockdown in Mohrah Akkrah near Sohawa tehsil headquarters after the death of a woman who recently returned from abroad. A police official said that after the burial of the woman, her husband who has also tested positive for Covid-19, had been admitted to hospital.

The adviser to the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister, Shams Mir, said that with seven more coronavirus cases the number of Covid-19 patients reached 91.

The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) reported its second Covid-19 patient on Thursday after an expatriate from the United Kingdom tested positive for the virus.

The 37-year-old man had landed at the Islamabad airport on March 17 from where he had driven straight to his native Bangrilla village on the outskirts of Mirpur. His neighbours quoted him as saying that he had not been screened at the airport.


Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2020
 

These are confirmed cases.

2 doctors in Punjab suffers COVID-19 while performing duties
Web Desk

MARCH 27, 2020

2 doctors who were performing their duties and giving treatment to COVID-19 patients in Dera Ghazi Khan quarantine center have themselves tested positive for coronavirus.

As per Punjab Secretary for Primary Healthcare Muhammad Usman, both doctors were treating COVID-19 patients in the DG Khan Isolation ward.

The doctors identified with Covid-19 have been kept in an isolation ward and are undergoing treatment, said health secretary, He said that the condition of both doctors is out of danger.

Earlier, a young physician, Dr Osama Riaz, became the first Pakistani doctor who died of coronavirus which he had contracted while physically handling suspected COVID-19 patients returning to Gilgit-Baltistan from overseas and other parts of Pakistan.

Dr Osama was part of 10-member team of the doctors tasked with screening patients returning from downtowns, particularly those arriving there from Iran via Taftan. He later started providing services to the suspected patients in isolation centres established for them in Gilgit.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/583940/2-doctors-in-punjab-suffers-covid-19-while-performing-duties/
 
Companies shut plants amid lockdowns

Dilawar Hussain

March 27, 2020

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KARACHI: Markets are seen closed during the fourth day of lock down in the metropolitan on Thursday.—INP

KARACHI: Companies are increasingly going towards lock down of their manufacturing facilities, saying that those are “temporary suspension of plant operations” due to the Covid-19.
 

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