Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab has tested positive for the coronavirus.
He is in self-isolation at home, he announced on Saturday.
Wahab is reportedly healthy and decided to get tested for the virus after developing a sore throat.
He has asked people to pray for his quick recovery.
Four people including two teens drowned while having a sea bath in Wattala, the Police said today.
The Police said that the victims had gone for a sea bath in Dikkowita, Wattala last evening (Saturday).
The Police were later alerted that four of them had gone missing while bathing.
A search operation was launched by the Navy and Police and four bodies were recovered.
The victims included three women aged 16, 20 and 30 and a 14 year-old boy.
(Colombo Gazette)
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President Donald Trump gave a lengthy explanation during his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday about his struggle to walk down a ramp the previous weekend, which was captured on video and prompted speculation about his health.
At one point on Saturday, Trump jokingly reenacted his descent down the ramp at West Point, where he had spoken to graduating students.
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President Donald Trump said that Congress should pass a federal law mandating that people who burn an American flag should go to jail for at least one year during his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Over the past few weeks, some demonstrators have burned or destroyed American flags at the protests over racism and police brutality that have taken place across the country.
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President Donald Trump said that the "Kung Flu," a racist term described as "highly offensive" by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in March, is "one of "19 or 20" names that people use to describe COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
"By the way, it's a disease, without question, has more names than any other in history. I can name, Kung Flu, I can name, 19 different versions of names. Many call it a virus, which it is, many call it a flu, what difference, I think we have 19 or 20 versions of the name," Trump said at a rally in Tulsa.
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President Donald Trump canceled a planned speech to the overflow crowd outside the arena at his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma after only dozens of people appeared to show up.
Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were set to speak to a planned overflow crowd outside Tulsa's BOK Center. Members of the media at the event reported that the crowd inside the arena was sizeable but still far smaller than expected.
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The Punjab government will ask the Centre to provide between 10,000 and 15,000 oxygen cylinders following an increase in coronavirus cases.
The decision was made during a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Secretary Jawwad Rafique Malik and Industries Minister Mian Muhammad Aslam Iqbal.
So far, the province has reported over 62,000 COVID-19 cases and 1,265 deaths. Infections are likely to spread rapidly in the next few weeks.
Oxygen cylinders come in handy for patients who have trouble breathing as the virus affects lungs and makes it hard to breathe smoothly.
Oxygen cylinder-providing vehicles have also been allowed to operate round the clock. Moreover, the government will take strict against those found involved in black marketing and hoarding medicines.
Hospitals have also been directed to abide by the Punjab Healthcare Commission’s instructions regarding quality of facilities and ventilator charges.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced that veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik will be joining the team in England after meeting his family.
“Shoaib Malik has not seen his immediate family for nearly five months due to his commitments and the subsequent international travel bans following the COVID-19 pandemic,” PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan said, according to a press release by the board. “As travel restrictions are now slowly easing out and there is an opportunity for a family reunion, it is appropriate that at a human level we show compassion as part of our duty of care and respect Shoaib’s request.”
Wasim said that they raised the matter with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) who understood the situation and agreed to make an exception by helping Shoaib enter the country on July 24. “Shoaib will follow the UK government’s policies on visitors entering the country before integrating with the side.”
Shoaib’s wife Sania Mirza and his one-year-old son Izhaan Mirza Malik are in India whereas the all-rounder has been staying in Sialkot since international travel was banned as part of safety measures against the coronavirus pandemic. He was representing Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League before it was brought to a halt on March 17.
The side is scheduled to depart for Manchester for June 28. They will then move to Derbyshire for their 14-day quarantine period where they will undergo training and practice. They will take part in intra-squad fixtures compensate for the lack of practice matches due to non-availability of local teams as the ECB has not begun its domestic season.
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Protesters in Washington, D.C pulled down a Confederate statue and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States.
Dozens of people rallied around the statue of General Albert Pike — the only Confederate statue in the capital — near Judiciary Square, with some chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "Let it Burn," according to the Washington Post.
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Bangladesh former Cricket captain Mashrafe Mortaza has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19).
His family have confirmed that Mashrafe’s tests returned positive on Saturday and the cricketer has been in self-isolation at his residence in Dhaka.
Earlier in the day, Nafees Iqbal, former Bangladesh cricketer and elder brother of ODI captain Tamim Iqbal, tested positive for the virus, according to media reports. Last month, Bangladesh’s development coach and former first-class cricketer Ashiqur Rahman had tested positive.
Bangladesh is scheduled to tour Sri Lanka in July-August but tour is unlikely to go ahead.
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President Donald Trump promised his supporters were in for a "wild evening" on Saturday after the much-disputed Tulsa rally was given the all-clear by Oklahoma's Supreme Court.
In an Axios interview released on Friday night, the president said that masks at the event wouldn't be mandatory, describing them as "a double-edged sword."
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Brazil has become the second country to reach more than 1 million COVID-19 infections, after the United States surpassed 2 million infections earlier this month.
The country saw a major increase in cases on Friday, with 54,771 new infections — bringing the total number to 1,032,913, according to Sky News.
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