Tested positive: K-P Assembly lawmaker infected with coronavirus

• Abdul Salam Afridi has been in quarantine at his home.
• Afridi belong to Nayabut Manga area where the first death of coronavirus was reported in the province.

(Karachi) An administrator from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has been tried positive for coronavirus, media provided details regarding Friday. 

As per subtleties, K-P Assembly part Abdul Salam Afridi was determined to have coronavirus after a test. He has been placed in isolation at his home. 

Abdul Salam Afridi has a place with the Nayabut Manga zone where the principal demise of coronavirus was accounted for in the region. 

Up until this point, 1,235 individuals have been tainted with the savage infection the nation over. In any event, 21 individuals have recuperated from the infection while nine patients passed on of the flare-up. 

The all outnumber of cases in Sindh has expanded to 421, Punjab 419, Balochistan 131, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 147, Islamabad 27 and Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan 93. 

Prior, Punjab revealed 11 more Covid-19 cases, as per commonplace wellbeing division representative Qaiser Asif. 

Asif said that all the patients were being kept in seclusion wards, and asked the individuals to follow careful steps to control the spread of the ailment. 

In the interim, lockdown the nation over proceeds as shopping centers, markets, between commonplace vehicles, prepares and flight activities stay suspended. The legislature additionally forced prohibition on gatherings in mosques to contain the spread of the infection.

Coping wth coronavirus: K-P govt decides to give tax relief to people: Ajmal Wazeer

• Wazir says 53 new coronavirus cases have been reported across the province taking tally to 176.
• K-P government has approved a Rs500 million grant for the provincial health department, says Ajmal.
• Adviser says educational institutions will remain closed till May 31.

(Karachi) Adviser to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Ajmal Wazir has said that the legislature has chosen to give charge alleviation to the individuals as a component of the financial bundle. 

Tending to a question and answer session in Peshawar on Friday, he said that the monetary bundle has been reported to encourage the majority, particularly the individuals having a place with poor class. 

He said the common government has chosen to close shopping centers and markets till April 10. 

He said open occasions in the area have been reached out to April 5 while the prohibition on huge social occasions will stay essentially until April 30. 

He featured that 53 new coronavirus cases have been accounted for over the area over the most recent 24 hours taking cost in K-P to 176. He expressed that the K-P government has endorsed an Rs500 million award for the commonplace wellbeing office. 

Wazir said that he has over and over accentuated on social separating and spoke to general society to take careful steps.

British PM Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus

• He says he is self-isolating but will continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as they fight this virus.

English Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tried positive for coronavirus and is currently self-detaching.

In a tweet from his official Twitter handle on Friday, the PM said that he created mellow side effects and on specialists' suggestion tried for the infection. He said his test turned out positive.

"In the course of the most recent 24 hours, I have created mellow indications and tried positive for coronavirus. I am currently self-secluding, yet I will keep on driving the administration's reaction employing video-meeting as we battle this infection," he said.
Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.
I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government's response via video-conference as we fight this virus.
Together we will beat this. #StayHomeSaveLives pic.twitter.com/9Te6aFP0Ri
• — Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives (@BorisJohnson) March 27, 2020

A Downing Street representative said the head administrator was tried for coronavirus on the individual exhortation of England's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty. "The test was completed in No 10 by NHS staff," the representative included.

Battling pandemic: PM establishes ‘Coronavirus Relief Fund’

• Imran says a force ‘Corona Relief Tigers' consisting of youth and volunteers from all over the country will be set up.
• Registration for force will commence from March 31: Imran.
• Restrictions on goods transport in country being lifted, says PM.
• Imran orders police to release all those people who were arrested during lockdown.

(Karachi) Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that taking into account expanding coronavirus cases in the nation, the legislature has set up a 'Coronavirus Relief Fund' while a power 'Crown Relief Tigers' comprising of youth and volunteers are additionally being established.

Tending to grapple people in Islamabad, Imran said that enlistment for power will begin from March 31. He reported that a record is being opened for a gift from abroad Pakistanis.

He said individuals from the power will be mindful to convey nourishment at doorsteps of the individuals the nation over if Covid-19 cases ascend in any zone.

He expounded that the 'Coronavirus Relief Fund will bolster day by day bets and poor portions of society influenced by the coronavirus. "The reserve will involve cash gave by the general population while the legislature will likewise give money to the poor under its Ehsaas program," the chief said.

The PM said that limitations on merchandise transport in the nation are being lifted with prompt impact. He said that all merchandise transport will keep on working to maintain a strategic distance from deficiency of nourishment things and influence the economy of the nation.

He said each of the four territories is attempting to devise a system to guarantee nourishment enterprises and businesses connected with nourishment creation stay useful.

"We focus on individuals not to assemble in one spot yet close by this we need to stay away from any deterrents in the stock of nourishment."

Imran Khan called attention to that the legislature is using all assets to abstain from making alarm in the nation.

He kept up that the legislature is taking choices keeping in see the coronavirus circumstance and to the greatest advantage of the majority.

The leader said despite the reality coronavirus has so far not spread as broadly in Pakistan as in some western nations, there is no assurance the ailment cases won't forcefully ascend in the nation in the coming weeks. He said the legislature is presently getting ready for the "most dire outcome imaginable".

"The lockdown in China succeeded however in America and Italy it fizzled," the PM commented.

On the event, he said that Taftan fringe need offices and the territory is "infertile". He featured the Balochistan government needed more assets to give satisfactory offices to explorers and merchants going from Iran.

"Dr. Zafar visited Taftan fringe after the main case was accounted for however when he returned and gave us the report, we were stunned. Since the region needed essential offices."

He stated, "There was no administration in Taftan by any stretch of the imagination."

The PM additionally requested the police to discharge those individuals who were captured during the lockdown.

Pakistan constitutes Scientific Task Force to develop COVID-19 vaccine

• The committee of Scientific Task Force on COVID-19 will be lead by renowned scientist Prof Atta ur Rahman.
• The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 18,000 lives in over 190 countries around the world, with the number of persons affected reaching half a million mark.

Pakistan has comprised a Scientific Task Force that has been entrusted to direct research and build up an immunization for coronavirus COVID-19, educated Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain.

The board of trustees of Scientific Task Force on COVID-19 will be lead by eminent researcher Prof Atta ur Rahman, the team has been allocated the activity to build up an antibody for coronavirus and direct research on it as the fix of coronavirus to date stay a secret. The board of trustees will work under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

"The Ministry of Science has set up a council headed by Dr. Ata-ul-Rahman, the council will facilitate inquire about on the Corona immunization and other related issues and will likewise bolster look into establishments universally,"

Different individuals from the board of trustees incorporate Prof Dr. Javed Akram, Prof Dr. Shazna Khalid, Prof Al Fareed Zafar, Prof Iqbal Choudhry, Prof Dr. Khalid Khan, and Prof Mariam Riaz Tarar. It might be referenced here that the coronavirus pandemic has guaranteed more than 18,000 lives in more than 190 nations around the globe, with the number of people influenced arriving at a large portion of a million imprint.

G20 Summit defines the “unified” worldwide effort to confront coronavirus

    Trump said that he did not favor the option of lifting tariffs. (Reuters)

• Trump praised the virtual summit
• The G20 leaders said they hope to raise $5 trillion to fight the pandemic

US President Donald Trump commended the G20 Emergency Summit that was facilitated by Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday and completed by video chat.

During his day by day coronavirus update at the White House, Trump said he was energized by the gathering and proclaimed "we will vanquish this infection."

He adulated the virtual summit — sorted out by Saudi Arabia, which holds the administration of the G20 this year — saying: "We had an extraordinary gathering. We have had a variety of thoughts. We're cooperating… to talk about the issue that 151 countries have… ideally (coronavirus) won't be an issue for any longer.

"We are attempting to stop the spread of the infection and facilitate our endeavors… sharing information… it was a spectacular gathering. Colossal soul among those nations."

On Wednesday, before the video chat, Trump said that he didn't support the choice of lifting taxes, as has been requested by China, and that he would keep on pushing for "solid fringes."

"I'm solid on fringes and I don't need individuals coming in here," Trump said when gotten some information about the G20, levies, and outskirts.

Prior, Trump said that in joining the G20 conversation he was not arranging an "organized" system with different countries. "I'm not going to do anything rash or hurriedly. I don't do that," he said.

Trump's remarks differentiated his message at the G20 in June a year ago when he was advancing "Overall monetary development and thriving" through a progression of strategies.

He prompted the participants at the time that nations should concentrate on executing star development strategies that will help prod their economies, for example, transforming charge laws, cutting guidelines and advancing money solidness. He additionally put incredible accentuation on what he called "out of line exchange rehearses" by certain nations, for example, China.

During Thursday's summit, the G20 pioneers said they plan to raise $5 trillion to battle the pandemic, will share more wellbeing information and address potential exchange war disturbances.

Fanatic and frequently irate political discussion has soiled the US reaction to the fast spread of the coronavirus and caused a few deferrals, including entry of a monetary boost bundle to support the economy.

Coronavirus updates, March 26: Latest news on the coronavirus pandemic from Pakistan and around the world

KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/QUETTA: The quantity of affirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has hit 1,201 after more individuals tried positive in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, KP, Azad Jammu, and Kashmir, Islamabad Capital Territory, and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The area savvy separate of the absolute number of cases as of 12:20 am, March 27, is as per the following:

Total confirmed cases: 1,201

• Sindh: 421

• Punjab: 408

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 123

• Balochistan: 131

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 25

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 91

• AJK: 02

Deaths: 09

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 03

• Sindh: 01

KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/QUETTA: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has hit 1,201 after more people tested positive in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, KP, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad Capital Territory and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The province-wise break up of total number of cases as of 12:20am, March 27, is as follows:

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Total confirmed cases: 1,201

• Sindh: 421

• Punjab: 408

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 123

• Balochistan: 131

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 25

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 91

• AJK: 02

Deaths: 09

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 03

• Sindh: 01

KARACHI/LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/QUETTA: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has hit 1,201 after more people tested positive in Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, KP, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad Capital Territory and Gilgit-Baltistan.

The province-wise break up of total number of cases as of 12:20am, March 27, is as follows:

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Total confirmed cases: 1,201

• Sindh: 421

• Punjab: 408

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 123

• Balochistan: 131

• Islamabad Capital Territory: 25

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 91

• AJK: 02

Deaths: 09

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 03

• Sindh: 01

• Balochistan: 01

• Gilgit-Baltistan: 01

• Punjab: 03

All-inclusive, 200 nations have been influenced, in excess of 21,000 individuals have kicked the bucket and in excess of 470,000 tainted by the sickness as it spreads quickly to new regions. 

The focal point of the episode has now moved to Europe, particularly Italy, which is recording a fast ascent in new cases and passings consistently.

Read on for the latest updates from Pakistan and around the world.

Disclaimer: There might be some disparity in the quantity of affirmed cases revealed at the national level because of contrasts in figures cited by government and common specialists.
Geo News is continually assembling crisp data from concerned specialists and endeavoring to stay up with the latest with the most precise data accessible.

Orange: All general updates coming in from Pakistan

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END OF LIVE UPDATES FOR MARCH 26

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Mosques not being closed, worshippers to keep their number minimum: Qadri

• He said the recitation of Holy Quran, Azaan, Zikar and prayers would continue in the mosques.
• Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) had allowed Muslims to offer prayers at home during heavy rains and thunderstorms.

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sahibzada Noor-ul-Haq Qadri Thursday said mosques in the nation would not be shut, in any case, the admirers would need to keep their number in Jamaat (gathering) supplications to the base level to control the spread of corona-virus.

Conversing with the media flanked by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umer, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Zafar Mirza and Chairman National Disaster Management Authority Lt Gen Muhammad Afzal, he said it has concurred in the gathering held at the administration that youngsters and unwavering of more than 50 years ago, other than the wiped out ones, ought to be banned from offering every day and Friday petitions in the mosques.

He said the recitation of the Holy Quran, Azaan, Zikar, and supplications would proceed in the mosques.

He said different strict announcements had just been given for ending huge social occasions in the mosques as Islam weighs on securing the lives of the admirers.

Citing a Hadith, he said Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) had permitted Muslims to offer supplications at home during substantial downpours and tempests.

Different mosques and sanctums, including Masjid e Aqsa, the holy place of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) and other consecrated strict spots had just been shut to maintain a strategic distance from coronavirus spread, he included.

He said the Ulema approved President Dr. Arif Alvi to take prudent steps and essential choices to contain the spread of corona-virus.

The gathering asked the Ulema to show individuals the negative effects of the spread of corona-virus. The individuals ought to limit themselves to their homes and offer petitions at home as a careful step to spare themselves from the destructive infection.

Pakistan forms ‘Scientific Task Force’ on COVID-19

Islamabad: The Ministry of Science and Technology on Tuesday formed a committee to conduct research on corona-virus vaccine and related matters.

A clergyman of S&T Chauncey Fawad Hussein reported that the Scientific Task Force will be going by famous researcher Dr. Atta ur Rehman. 

The group will get help from global research organizations, he stated, including that Pakistan Science Foundation has additionally begun to investigate the ailment. 

Individuals from the power incorporate Prof. Dr. Javed Akram, Prof. Dr. Shazna Khalid, Prof Al Fareed Zafar, Prof Iqbal Chaudhry, Prof. Dr. Khalid Khan, and Prof. Mariam Riaz Tarar. 

The quantity of corona-virus cases has flooded to 956 with Sindh's most exceedingly awful influenced territory with 407 cases. Punjab is in the second situation with 265 cases while KP has affirmed 78 cases. 

There are 110 cases in Baluchistan, 15 cases in Islamabad and 81 cases in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gil-git Batista.

PM’s Relief Package

Prior today, Prime Minister Imran Khan reported a monetary alleviation bundle to give help to general society and business network amid coronavirus episode. 

Tending to noticeable media people, the head administrator said that the legislature was continually assessing the circumstance. He additionally restricted the burden of complete lockdown in the nation. 

The chief reported diminishing the costs of oil costs by Rs15 per liter. 

He said that Rs200 billion has been distributed to give alleviation to the work network, including that the legislature was additionally in contact with regions to more encourage individuals who jobless because of the pandemic. 

Duty discounts worth Rs 100 will be discharged to the fare and industry division, he stated, including that Rs50 billion will be given to utility stores to give nourishment things to people in general at sponsored costs. 

The head included that Rs150 billion will be dispersed among poor families in four months. 

He additionally restricted total lockdown or check-in time in the nation, saying it will put the weight on a day by day bets. He said that transport in the nation was not being ended as it would influence the stock framework. 

Discussing measures taken at the common level, he said that areas are free to choose the eighteenth amendment. 

"We need to take the shrewd choices as opposed to making insurgency in the nation," the chief said. 

"We must be arranged completely before forcing," he stated, including that volunteer powers will be required to help the organization for nourishing individuals at their doorstep. 

He acknowledged China for not sending a solitary coronavirus patient to Pakistan, including that there was pressure the administration over understudies struck in Wuhan.

G20 leaders pledge $5 trillion, ‘united’ response to Covid-19 crisis

Riyadh: G20 countries promised a "joined front" Thursday in the battle against corona-virus, saying they were infusing $5 trillion into the worldwide economy to counter the pandemic in estimates of a profound downturn. 

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the crisis video conference led by Saudi Arabia's King Sal-man, who called for composed activity while confronting strain to end an oil value war among Riyadh and Moscow that has bothered vitality markets. 

The discussions come in analysis that the G20 has been delayed to address the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left more than 21,000 dead overall as indicated by authentic information, and activated money related stun waves as more than three billion individuals are secured. 

"We are unequivocally dedicated to introducing a unified front against this basic danger," the pioneers said in a joint proclamation after the summit. 

"We are infusing over $5 trillion into the worldwide economy, as a component of focused monetary strategy, financial measures, and assurance plans to neutralize the social, financial and money related effects of the pandemic."

Support for developing nations

As concerns mount for less fortunate nations without access to capital markets or satisfactory well-being offices, G20 pioneers likewise promised to work with bodies, for example, the International Monetary Fund to convey a "strong" budgetary bundle to help creating countries. 

"It is our obligation to stretch out some assistance to creating nations and [the] least created nations to empower them to assemble their abilities and improve their foundation to conquer this emergency and its repercussions," King Sal-man said. 

The world's 20 most industrialized nations are scrambling to shield their infection wracked economies in the midst of estimates they will probably dive into a downturn. 


On Wednesday, the money related appraisals office Moody's assessed the G20's general total national output would decrease by 0.5 percent this year, with the US economy contracting by 2 percent and the Eur-ozone by 2.2 percent.

US-China tensions

This week, French President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese partner Xi Jingling pushed for a crisis G20 summit to confine the effect of the pandemic. 

The absence of prompt activity remained as opposed to the 2008 money related emergency, when the gathering immediately got the ball rolling to assemble help for defenseless nations. 

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompey trained in on China, saying the top ambassadors of the Group of Seven concurred with him that Beijing was pursuing a "disinformation" battle about the pandemic. 

At the G7 talks, a day before the G20 summit, Pompey affirmed Beijing was occupied with a web-based social networking effort that included paranoid ideas that the US was behind the infection, which was first recognized in the Chinese city of Wuhan. 

"On the off chance that G20 pioneers can set governmental issues aside and arrive at an aggregate G20 understanding, nations have a superior possibility of achievement or of conveying more upgrade than all alone," Marks Engels, from the Global Solutions Initiative, a system of research organizations, told AFP. 

"Coordination among the G20 sends a solid message of solidarity and certainty, the two of which are direly required at this point."

Coronavirus: Pakistan records 83 new COVID-19 cases in one day with total tally at 136 on Monday

Dubai: Coronavirus cases in Pakistan has ascended to 136 on Monday after the Sindh Provincial specialists affirmed 83 new cases. 

Sindh is presently the most exceedingly awful hit region in Pakistan with 88 out of 136 complete coronavirus cases detailed until Monday evening. This is the single biggest increment in novel coronavirus cases in the nation starting today. 

Exactly 68 new cases were accounted for in Sindh on Monday while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) announced 15 cases pushing the number from 53 to 136 Monday. 

KP wellbeing pastor Taimur Saleem Jhagra tweeted that 15 out of 19 got in the region from Taftan have tried positive for the infection 

Murtaza Wahab, Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister on Law, Anti-Corruption Establishment, and Information, tweeted on Monday that 50 individuals who came back from the isolate at Taftan fringe with Iran had tried positive for COVID-19. 

Out of the affirmed cases, 25 are in Karachi and one is in Hyderabad. "Out of these 76 patients, 2 have recouped and the staying 74 are being kept in segregation," he included. 

On Sunday, 20 were cases were affirmed by the specialists with Punjab revealing its originally affirmed understanding. Sindh affirmed 18 new cases while Islamabad revealed one, announced the Express Tribune.

As of now, there are 76 confirmed cases in Sindh, 10 Baluchistan, three in Gilgit Baluchistan, four in Islamabad and one in Punjab.

Out of the 18 cases revealed in Sindh on Saturday, 13 were of those isolated in Sukkot. Three out of the staying five had as of late came back from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one went from Baluchistan and the fifth patient had no movement history.

Imran orders emergency measures

Then, Prime Minister Imran Khan has requested finish of crisis measures to battle corona virus. The National Coordination Committee on the Corona virus is additionally going to consider deterring Sindhi from the remainder of Pakistan via fixing its inter-provincial fringes because of huge increment in corona-virus cases in Sindh. 

"All choices taken [in this meeting] must be actualized no matter what. The country should be refreshed and educated in regards to the corona-virus consistently. We have to battle the corona-virus, not be frightened by it," he included.

Task force

Likewise, a corona-virus team has been shaped by the Khyber Pankhurst (KP)government with the commonplace boss priest in the seat. The KP government has just started a mindfulness drive for the ailment. Seventy structures have additionally been recognized to be transformed into isolate focuses. 

Common Aviation Authority on Monday gave crisp guidelines to control the issue of congestion at the air terminals. Under the new orders, trivial people won't be permitted to enter residential and global appearance lounges.