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NATIONAL COMMAND AND OPERATIONS CENTRE SITUATION REPORT

PART – I

Issued: 2:00 PM

27th Aug 2020

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• Total Functioning Labs in Pakistan - 142

• Total Testing Capacity - 68140

• Testing Conducted Last 24 hrs - 23,441

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1. International

a. US FDA's chief has apologized for overselling plasma's benefits as a

COVID-19 treatment.

b. University of Alabama (US) has reported more than 550 COVID positive cases

amongst students, faculty and staff since it resumed in-person classes.

c. Spanish PM has said that troops would be made available to help areas

overcome resurgence of COVID.

d. Myanmar shuts schools after highest daily increase in COVID cases.

e. Turkey's new COVID cases have increased to its highest level since mid-June at

1,502.

f. Minister of Human Capacities Hungary has said that based on fresh data on

COVID, Hungary can reopen schools next week.

g. India’s Central Bank Governor has cautioned that the state-dominated banking

system will need to push ahead with an infusion of funds to withstand the

country’s deepening COVID crisis.

h. Sweden uncovers 3,700 false positives from COVID-19 test kit.

i. South Korea has ordered doctors in Seoul to return to work as they began

a three-day strike in protest of several government proposals, including

increasing the number of doctors.

j. Norway has said that it will impose a 10-day quarantine on all people arriving

from Germany.

k. Russia has decided to start a new phase of clinical trials of approved COVID

vaccine called "Sputnik V" that will involve more than 40,000 people in Moscow.

l. French PM has said that government wants to avoid a new nationwide

lockdown due to COVID.

m. Gatwick Airport, (Britain) located south of London said it needed to reduce 24% of

its workforce because of travel slump caused by the COVID.

n. British military scientists have discovered that a product found in insect repellent

can kill the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID.

o. Kazakhstan has signed a deal with Russia to get supplies of its first potential

COVID vaccine once clinical trials are complete.

2. National

a. Department of AGP has planned to audit all expenditures linked with COVID in

country to ensure transparency in the concerned departments.

b. KP government has devised strict SOPs of COVID for opening of schools from

15th of next month.

c. Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar said COVID has been defeated with the

support of the nation and business community.

d. Active COVID-19 cases drop below 10,000 in Pakistan.

e. Punjab teachers to undergo COVID tests before schools reopening.