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Brief: 01-07-2021

  • Pakistan’s daily coronavirus caseload goes over 1,000 for first time in a week

NCOC data shows 46,145 tests conducted on June 30, of which 1,037 came back positive for COVID-19.  Pakistan’s positivity rate is currently 2.2%.

  • DG ISI to brief MNAs on national security, Afghanistan

Top official have expressed concerns over the increasing violence in Afghanistan and its implication for Pakistan.

  • Karachi trade bodies, SSGC sign MoU to address gas crisis

SSGC to ensure full-pressure gas supply in 7 industrial zones in exchange for them not agreeing to use gas for one day of the week.  MoU has been signed on a short-term basis.

  • China celebrates 100 years of communist party today

President Xi Jinping will lead centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party in Tiananmen Square, pulling on history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of China´s — and his own – irresistible rise.

  • Donald Rumsfeld, infamous for overseeing Iraq, Afghanistan wars, dies at 88

A consummate bureaucratic infighter, Donald Rumsfeld was one of the longest-serving defense secretaries in US history.

  • Myanmar junta frees thousands of anti-coup protesters

Myanmar authorities released more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons across the country, including local journalists jailed after reporting critically on the junta’s bloody crackdown.

  • WHO certifies China malaria-free

China is certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.

  • Shahid Afridi urges PM Imran Khan to compensate families of PK-8303 crash victims

Families of the victims of PIA 8303 plane crash are already bearing the loss of their loved ones. Not clearing the dues furthermore exacerbates their situation. Requesting Arshad Malik, @Official_PIA @ImranKhanPTI to look into this matter & to help alleviate their pain – Shahid Afridi.

  • Sohaib ready to bat at any position for Pakistan

Sohaib Maqsood said that he has no issues where he bats in national colors after a phenomenal run in the recent HBL Pakistan Super League earned the 34-year-old an unexpected spot for the white-ball, tour of England.

  • TikTok removed 6 million videos in Pakistan in first quarter of 2021

More than six million videos were removed from TikTok in Pakistan in three months, the app said on Wednesday, as it battles an on-off ban in the country.

COVID-19 Updates:

  • With 1,037 new COVID-19 cases, 40 deaths recorded in the last 44 hours
  • 31,767 COVID-19 cases are active in the country
  • The total death tally of Covid-19 stands at 22,321
  • 836 people recovered from Coronavirus in the last 24 hours
  • The positivity rate of Covid-19 is recorded at 2.2%
  • Over 182.1million are infected globally
  • More than 3.9 million have died due to the virus
  • Over 133 million recovered from COVID-19
  • Pakistan records more than 1.000 Covid infections after a gap of 6 days
  • Drap gives emergency approval for Moderna’s Covid -19 Jab
  • 117 Covid cases detected in KP, 33 in Balochistan
  • Punjab reports 121 Covid Cases, 8 deaths
  • Islamabad, AJK and GB collectively report 144 Covid cases, 3 deaths
  • Pakistan reports 836 Covid recoveries
  • Indonesia emergency Covid-19 curbs to be effective july 2-20: Minister
  • Covid-19 vaccine from Germany’s CureVac just 48pc effective
  • Bangladeshis confined at home in strict lockdown
  • Sydney Delta outbreak grows, cases in community stoke worries

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