Today’s outlook: OPDs across Sindh, Punjab and KP to reopen

Here are some of the stories we are expecting to follow today (Thursday):

• OPDs in hospitals across Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab will resume operation. Patients have suffered due to their closure amid the country-wide lockdown.
• According to the NDMA chairman, around 0.1 million coronavirus testing kits will arrive in Pakistan of whom 35,000 will be handed over to Sindh.
• A 30-member parliamentary committee on the coronavirus will meet today.
• The Sindh government is adamant that the monthly fee of private schools in the province be reduced by 20%. Education Minister Saeed Ghani says action will be taken against schools who don’t abide by the orders.
• Karachi residents have been allowed to submit their electricity bill for April as per actual meter reading instead of the average billing system.
• As of Thursday, 4,200 known cases of the coronavirus have been reported across Pakistan. Sixty patients have died.
• ICYMI: Don’t be under the false impression that Pakistanis are immune to the coronavirus, says Prime Minister Imran Khan. Click here to read the full story.

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