Tag: Relief amid COVID-19

Why the densely populated South Asia is less affected by COVID19?

Osama Shaukat
less affected by COVID19 cases in South Asia and reason

Cases in South Asia are far less affected by COVID19 than the rest of the world. In this type of situation, governments have to take tough decisions; same as taken by the government of Pakistan. They closed all schools, colleges and universities. Besides this, all educational institutions and all the public events got cancelled including the ongoing PSL matches and the IPL as well. Government has been criticized by the masses and people including the opposition parties didn’t support the decision. The speculation about the cases was high. It was…

Big relief for SMEs and unemployed labourers in Pakistan: ECC

Sanaullah Abro
ECC Meeting today held in Islamabad chaired by Dr abdul hafeez shaikh and Hammad Azhar discussed relief to SMEs and unemployed labourers in Pakistan

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), chaired a meeting today to design relief packages of hard-hit individuals and firms by Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). After the meeting, Federal Minister for Industries & Production, Hammad Azhar addressed a press conference. In which he announced that ECC has approved packages for unemployed labourers and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of the country. As the ECC members think they are hard hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Pakistan. Addressing to the press conference, Azhar said that the packages will be further discussed with the federal…