In an attempt to contain the spread of coronavirus, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has imposed a ban on the entry of visitors coming either to receive or see off passengers at the airports.
According to details, no visitor will be allowed to enter the airport with the passengers. The ban, which comes into effect immediately, will be applicable on all airports.
Only the drivers will be allowed to enter the airport, but they too will not be allowed to go beyond parking spots. Passengers will have to move their luggage themselves from the parking space.
CAA officials state that the decision has been taken to provide a safe environment for all passengers and lower the risk of coronavirus.
At the same time, CAA has requested citizens not to make unnecessary visits to airports as they could contract the disease.
So far, Pakistan has reported 106 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with Sindh accounting for 88 of the cases.
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Take These Safety Precautions Against Coronavirus If You’re Traveling
The outbreak of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has had devastating effects all around the world with over 180,000 people infected and thousands of fatalities. It has led to a blood-bath in the stock markets and even halted the global auto industry.
At the time of when this article was being written, over 90 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Pakistan and we thought to put together a list of preventive measures that you can take to help stop spread the virus.
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HMD Global has quietly unveiled its latest Android Go smartphone under the moniker Nokia C2. The smartphone, as compared to its predecessor, comes with slight upgrades in almost all the categories. Since it is a budget smartphone, the company did not give it a dedicated event or announcement, which makes complete sense.
Design and Display Design-wise, the Nokia C2 does not look much different from its older counterpart. The only visible difference is the larger display size. Like most of the Nokia budget smartphones, this one also comes with a plain matte back and thick bezels around the display.
It is built around a large 5.7-inch LCD with HD+ (720p) resolution. The earpiece and selfie camera sit in the thick forehead bezel.
Internals and Storage Internally, the Nokia C2 comes with a 1.4GHz quad-core Unisoc processor at the helm, topped with 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB of onboard expandable storage.
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How to Clean Your Phone to Avoid Coronavirus [Guide]
At this point, where COVID-19 or coronavirus cases are increasing by the day, most of us are frantically washing our hands and trying not to touch our faces. However, do you think that is enough? What about our phones that are almost like an extension of our hands?
According to experts, smartphones are nothing less breeding ground for germs. They are much dirtier than you might think.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization are continually asking users to disinfect frequently touched surfaces. Our Smartphones are one of them.
On January 17, ZDNet took to Twitter to ask a simple question: How often do you disinfect your phone? The results were mind-boggling. A whopping 60 percent of the audience admitted that they never cleaned their phone. Only 18.5 percent of the people said they clean their phones weekly, and 7.4% inferred they would clean it after being sick.
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Dr. Mumtaz Ali Khan, Senior Scientific Officer and Focal Person for Infection Prevention, Control and Patient Safety (NIH, Pakistan) was invited to deliver the session. He highlighted some crucial global and local statistics related to the number of people being affected by the virus.
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Sindh Education Minister Announces New Exam Schedule
Sindh Education and Literacy Department has rejected rumors on social media that students across the province will be promoted without exams.
In a clarification on Monday, the Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani said that the exams for the classes 1st to 8th will be taken from 1st to the 15th of June when the schools reopen.
“Exams for the classes 1st to 8th will be held from the 1st of June to the 15th of June. After the results, students will be promoted to the next courses,” said Ghani, adding that this is when the new academic year in the province will start.
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There are media reports that the Punjab Excise and Taxation Department has started creating rules and regulation pertaining to the re-registration procedure of vehicles that are already registered in other provinces.
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Sadly, due to limited use of information technology, the facility was put on hold after several cases of fraud were discovered in 2002. After that, under section 30 of the Motor Vehicle Act of 1963, the department was empowered through the finance bill in the 2016 financial budget to restart this with a condition that that a formal order would be signed by the Secretary Punjab Excise after the rules and regulation were drafted.
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Banking Industry continued to receive handsome inflows of deposits that have surged to Rs. 14.8 trillion and are likely to touch Rs. 15 trillion within the next month.
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Some banks cashed in on the opportunity and offer profit rates of up to 14 percent on different saving products mainly Term Deposit Certificates for a period of one to five years. Besides the certificate, banks—Islamic and conventional—received healthy deposits in non-remunerative accounts from new customers and account holders including corporations and various associations which also added inflows in their deposits.
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The coronavirus outbreak has brought almost the entire world to a halt and now tech companies are starting to produce tools to help spread awareness and counter the epidemic. Microsoft has now released a live dashboard on bing that tracks the COVID-19 outbreak.
The live tracker collects data from reliable sources including the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Although plenty of similar trackers already exist, most of them are meant for desktops only. Unlike most that are currently available, Bing’s dashboard makes it incredibly easy to stay up to date on mobile devices as well.
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