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India-Pakistan
Pak: Corona cases surge as lockdown eases
2020-05-11
[The News (Pak)] The country registered a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
confirmed cases and fatalities on Saturday with the ease of lockdown.Majority of people, especially those who were out to do the Eid shopping, had least regard for and adherence to the safety protocols set by the federal and provincial governments. The shopkeepers and the buyers were equally responsible for flouting the SOPs.

The number of confirmed cases increased to 28,745 in the country with addition of 2,301 cases.

Of the total 28,745 confirmed cases, Sindh reported 10,771, cases, Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

10,471, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 4,509, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
1876, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) 609, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) 430 and Azad Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(AJK) 79 as of 12:25am.

The number of deaths has increased to 641, with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa reporting 234 deaths, Sindh 181, Balochistan 24, Gilgit-Baltistan 4, Punjab 194, and Islamabad Capital Territory 4.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
at least four persons have died while a staggering 1,080 new COVID-19 cases have emerged in Sindh during the last 24 hours, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Saturday, adding that of these, 691 cases were reported from Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
alone.

This number,1,080, is the highest of the Covid-19 cases recorded in any province so far since the emergence of the first case on March 26, ringing alarm bells. Besides Karachi, Pir-jo-Goth of Khairpur district has emerged as another hot spot of the contagion with 246 new cases in a single day.
Posted by:Fred

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