Today’s outlook: Delta variant updates, complete lockdown and monsoon alert

Here are some of the stories we will be following today, July 29:

• Pakistan reported 4497 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday and 76 people died in the last 24 hours. The toll has reached 23,133.
• The Delta variant is growing alarming in Karachi, and the positivity rate has crossed 30% in the city. The Sindh government started considering a complete lockdown for 15 days.
• Prime Minister Imran Khan has advised people to be careful during the heavy monsoon rains across the country has put the National Disaster Management Authority on high alert.
• The PML-N lost the PP-38 constituency of Punjab and Ahsan Saleem of the PTI won by 62,657 votes.
• The bodies of two climbers, including Muhammad Ali Sadpara, have been taken out. According to his son Sajid Sadpara, the body has been brought to Camp Four.
• Pakistan’s first T20I against West Indies at the Kingston Oval in Barbados has been abandoned due to rain on Wednesday.

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In order to comply with FATF’s guidelines, Pakistan has discontinued prize bonds of high denominations and according to a report by SAMAA Digital’s Wakil Ur Rehman. It might also discontinue the other prize bonds.

Sector E 11 in Islamabad right next to Saidpur has been flooded with hill torrents that have swept away cars after a cloudburst.

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Pakistan has decided to not extend the summer vacations of educational institutions and all schools have been instructed to open from August 2, Monday.

The decision was made in a meeting chaired by Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood on Wednesday. All provincial education ministers, including Gilgit-Baltistan’s minister, attended it.

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