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As more coronavirus cases are testing positive, that have more than doubled in just past 24 hours, the federal and provincial governments are fast becoming the target of mass criticism for the measures that were in place, despite an early warning and examples from other countries we had in advance. Governments (both provincial and central) argue that these cases are mostly foreign returners and toll has risen rapidly only because results of clinical tests are now becoming available. Not to mention, majority — more than two third of — cases are those who returned from Iran, while there are also cases that were Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Syria returners. Despite all these new cases, no major lock-down is announced, for any of the cities in the country. However, with rising cases, a mass-scale lock-down seems imminent. Here are the latest updates on Coronavius for the day: 9.20 amUAE Suspends Prayer in Mosques and All Houses of Worship UAE’s state news agency WAM reported that th..

Jazz has announced that it is implementing mandatory “Work from Home” policy for its country-wide operations, starting immediately. Aamir Ibrahim, CEO Jazz, who is leading the coronavirus prevention drive at the company, announced this new policy in an email that’s sent to the entire company a while ago. “I wanted to assure you that in these difficult times, your wellbeing is my foremost concern”, wrote Aamir in the email. But said that during this challenging time the company also has an obligation towards the nation for providing parallel cellular, banking and communication services. Considering the best known measure to defeat coronavirus, Aamir announced: Jazz will be moving to a mandatory work-from-home policy nationwide from March 17 to March 31, 2020 Given the size of Jazz, as a corporation and the scope of services it offers, the decision is massive. Not to mention, company has business continuity plan in place, meaning that customers will continue to avail Jazz and JazzCa..

The COVID-19 outbreak has already spread to over 130 countries and the number of patients continue to increase. Increasing cases are also creating a shortage of the expensive COVID-19 detection kits. Researchers across the world are trying to find ways to reduce the testing cost by devising cheaper kits. Researchers from a Pakistani university have claimed to have produce a coronavirus kit that is even cheaper than any other iterations. ALSO READ Syed Murad Ali Shah Explains the Coronavirus Situation in Sindh Prof Dr. Muhammad Idrees and his team of students at the University of Punjab have managed to create a testing kit that will be able to diagnose coronavirus among patients and cost only $5, or 800 rupees. This is much cheaper than kits that have been previously produced which cost around 3200 rupees. While talking to the media, Professor of Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology Dr. Muhammad Idrees said that they had been working on the kit since January and were able to ..