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Pakistan Responds to the Looming Coronavirus Threat

Thursday saw some major developments in Pakistan where the center and provincial governments took important decisions to forestall the spread of coronavirus in the country. PM Imran Khan has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee on Friday (today) to discuss the coronavirus situation in the country and required preventive measures to curb the spread. The meeting will be chaired by PM Imran Khan. All three heads of the armed forces, DGs of ISI and IB, representatives of all provinces, interior and foreign ministries, as well as PM’s aides on health, economy, information & broadcasting, and national security division will participate in the meeting. On Thursday night, the PM Office quoted data from the National Institute of Health in a tweet and rectified the number of affected people to 20, from the previously reported 21. Earlier, the military’s top brass discussed country’s COVID-19 related developments in the Corps Commanders Conference presided over by Ar..
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Researchers from Harvard Claim 70% of Humankind Will Be Infected by Coronavirus

Seemingly impossible to contain, the Coronavirus has swept across 125 countries and territories since it first broke out in Wuhan, China, at the end of last year. According to latest reports, COVID-19 (as the virus strain is commonly known) has infected nearly 134,769 people and killed 4,983 people. Italy and Iran remain the most affected countries with 1,016 and 429 deaths respectively outside China, the epicenter of the disease. Keeping the ever-deteriorating situation in mind, the World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. However, epidemiologists at Harvard University have projected that the number of infections and deaths is nothing compared to what is going to happen in months to come. Experts have claimed that nearly 70% of the world’s population will contract the Coronavirus and that 1% of the entire population is projected to die from the affliction. Marc Lipsitch, Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard Univer..