Today’s outlook: ECC meets, Sindh petrol pumps close at 5pm

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

  • Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh will chair an Economic Coordination Committee meeting in Islamabad. The meeting will approve a Rs1.2 trillion relief package for the public amid the countrywide lockdown.
  • Petrol pumps across Sindh will be closed by 5pm. The provincial government had already announced closure of grocery and medical stores by 5pm.
  • Prime Minister Imran Khan will announce how the Youth Tiger Force will distribute rations among needy families during lockdown.
  • So far, 1,578 known cases of the coronavirus have surfaced across Pakistan. Seventeen people have died of it.
  • A six-month-old girl has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Gujarat.
  • ICYMI: Authorities sealed the Imtiaz Super Market branch in Karachi’s Korangi area on Sunday for failing to take precautionary measures against the coronavirus spread. Click here to read the full story.


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