Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
‘Smart lockdown’ imposed in certain cities as COVID-19 cases jump past 148,000
Islamabad : Certain areas of major cities across the country are undergoing a ‘smart lockdown’ on Tuesday, a day after the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) issued a list of 20 cities identified as COVID-19 hotspots across the country. Parts of Islamabad and Peshawar have been sealed with major areas of Lahore set to go under lockdown from midnight tonight. “A total of 20 cities across Pakistan have been identified as having likely increase in ratio/speed of infection which needs restrictive measures for containment,” a statement by the NCOCRead More
Trump says US cutting troops in Germany over NATO spending
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said Washington will cut down the number of troops in Germany to 25,000, due to Berlin’s failure to meet NATO’s defense spending target. The reduction of about 9,500 troops would be a remarkable rebuke to one of the closest US trading partners and could erode faith in a pillar of postwar European security: that US forces would defend alliance members against Russian aggression. It was not clear whether Trump’s stated intent, which first emerged in media reports on June 5, would actually come to passRead More
Another plane carrying PPEs arrives from China
ISLAMABAD: Another flight carrying PPEs from China to help Pakistan in fight against novel coronavirus on Tuesday landed at the Islamabad airport. The PPEs include 15,0000 N-95 face masks and 5,00000 surgical masks. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal thanked the Chinese government for the help on behalf of people and government of Pakistan. He said there is no shortage of testing equipment in the country in terms of coronavirus and underlined the need of oxygen more than ventilators. “The provinces canRead More