ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday postponed all the scheduled meetings of the house’s bodies for unidentified period amid coronavirus fears, ARY News reported.
According to a spokesperson of NA, the speaker has postponed all the scheduled meetings of standing committees, parliamentary, special, public accounts and sub-committees for unidentified period.
He maintained that the meetings were postponed due to rising cases of novel coronavirus. The spokesperson said that the notices have been issued in this regard.
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Earlier in the day, two more persons had tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities confirmed.
As per details, the first was reported from Islamabad, while the second case detected in Sindh. According to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) officials, a 30-year-old woman had been tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. The patient from the capital had travelled from the US to Pakistan a few days ago.
The officials had further added that the woman’s condition was critical and she had been placed on a ventilator.
