Saturday, May 9th, 2020
Inclusive strategies needed to reach out to daily wagers, freelancers
Parliamentarians and civil society reps urge the government to adopt available mechanisms Islamabad – Parliamentarians and civil society representatives while participating in a virtual conference urged the government to urgently develop an integrated mechanism engaging different stakeholders and active civil society organizations to reach out to variety of daily workers and freelancers. Daily bread-earners are not only poor and marginalized communities and laborers, but they include teachers and other semi-skilled and skilled persons too. They are suffering from the crisis but being neglected due to inefficient approach adopted by theRead More
58 more new COVID-19 positive cases reported in Balochistan
QUETTA, May 09 (dna ):About 58 new coronavirus patients were reported in Balochistan, taking the number of total confirmed patients to 1935 in the province on Saturday. According to Media Coordinator Provincial Health Directorate Coronavirus Cell Dr. Muhammad Wasim Baig, at least 35493 people were screened for the virus till May 9, out of which 58 more were reported positive. As many as 242 affected patients had recovered from the coronavirus so far while 24 deaths were recorded due to the deadly virus, he added.
Trump’s handling of pandemic a chaotic disaster: Obama
Washington, May 9:Former president Barack Obama has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it an “absolute chaotic disaster.” In a leaked web call Friday night with former members of his administration, Obama also said the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the Russia probe, endangers the rule of law in the US. In the audio, first obtained by Yahoo News, Obama urges former staffersRead More
Urban Slum COVID-19 Programme from Monday
ISLAMABAD, May 9 (DNA):Advisor to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam would inaugurate on Monday Pakistan’s first Urban Slum COVID-19 Response Programme in collaboration with the UN Habitat. Other collaborating partners for the initiative “Pakistan Covid-19 Urban Slums Response Programme (PCUSRP),” included Shehersaaz, National Cleaner Production Center (NCPC), Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Trust (AHKMT), Aman and Rawalpindi Waste Management Company, a news release said. The decision regarding launch of the a novel initiative, which aimed to respond to growing vulnerabilities of the urban settlements to COVID-19,Read More
France records 80 new virus deaths, lowest daily toll in a month
Paris, May 9 (French health officials on Saturday announced another 80 deaths from the new coronavirus, the lowest figure recorded over 24 hours since early April. The figures for those in intensive care also fell, with 38 people admitted for critical care.
COVID-19 positive cases reach to 27,474 across country: NCOC
ISLAMABAD, May 09 (DNA ):The COVID-19 caseload in Pakistan had reached 27,474 with 618 new cases reported during last 24 hours, an official of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on coronavirus said on Saturday. Sharing the data, he said that total 618 deaths had been reported from the disease with 24 reported during last 24 hours. He said that 7,756 patients had been recovered. He added total 270,025 tests had been conducted while in last 24 hours 12,982 tests were conducted. He said 9,691 cases were reported fromRead More