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NATIONAL COMMAND AND OPERATIONS CENTRE SITUATION REPORT

PART – I

Issued: 2:00 PM

15th Oct 2020

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• Total Functioning Labs in Pakistan - 147

• Total Testing Capacity - 73,332

• Testing Conducted Last 24 hrs - 31,862

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1. International

a. WHO has said that an extra 10,000 children per month may die this year from

malnutrition due to the COVID -19 crisis.

b. Britain has called for more global cooperation in response to the pandemic and

a push to ease the debt burden on the world's poorest countries.

c. World Bank (WB) said its executive board has approved $12 billion in new

funding for developing countries to finance the purchase and distribution of

COVID-19 vaccines, test kits and treatments for their citizen.

d. Several coronavirus clusters have emerged in Australia's two most populous

states, prompting the biggest, New South Wales, to delay easing some restriction.

e. Facebook Inc has decided to ban ads that discourage people from getting

vaccinated.

f. Russia has granted regulatory approval to second COVID-19 vaccine

EpiVacCorona.

g. Indonesian Foreign Minister has said that AstraZeneca is set to provide Indonesia

with 100 Mn COVID vaccines next year.

h. A Japanese supercomputer while predicting the effects of humidity on the

dispersion of virus particles has simulated that humidity lower than 30 % resulted

in more than double the number of aerosolized particles compared to levels of

60 % or higher.

2. National

a. Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal has tested positive for COVID-19.

b. Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has directed all of its officials, except

directors, to work from home for the next two days due to recent cases of the

coronavirus detected in the department in Islamabad.

c. World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published by IMF has predicted

Pakistan’s economy could grow by only 1%, by the end of this fiscal year.

d. Federal Minister for Planning and Developing Asad Umar said coronavirus cases

are increasing in some parts of the country due to social gatherings and non-

compliance of SOPs.