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The residents of Peshawar helped the policemen positioned on the roads to protect them.
As per reports, a few volunteers gave food packets to the officers performing lockdown duties in the city.
Health professionals and medical workers are undoubtedly fighting against coronavirus on the front lines, but we can’t ignore the role being played by the police, said a volunteer.
The policemen thanked the volunteers for the gesture.
The federal government is working on a new rule to discourage hoarding and make the actions against profiteering more strict.
According to details, Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem to draft an ordinance on the matter and that an ordinance has been sent to the PM for approval.
The ordinance has suggested maximum sentence of three years in jail for the violators. They will also be fined 50% of the cost of the items they were stocking.
According to the ordinance, all hoarded items would be seized and then auctioned off at different markets.
The PM will present the ordinance in the Cabinet and after its approval, it will be sent to the President.
Adnan Jaffar, who is currently essaying the role of Dr Feroz in the blockbuster drama Ruswai, has silently made his Hollywood debut with Homeland. The actor appeared in the ninth episode of the eighth season titled In Full Flight and essayed the role of a Pakistani General named Aziz who has a brief but heated exchange with Bunny Latif, played by the enigmatic Art Malik.
In a recent interview, Jaffar, who started his career as a broadcast journalist, shared how he ended up getting the role in the final season of the award-winning series. He revealed that the team of Homeland was looking for an “English-speaking actor with a South Eastern face” and since a few of his films are available on Netflix, they ended up discovering him.
“I was approached through a casting person who sent me an audition script, which I promptly recorded and sent back. They took a few weeks and luckily, the production team cast me in the character. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting it, being a ‘nobody’ on the international scene. So many people audition without success, plus it was such a high profile series. Any Indian actor could easily have done it, but I guess me (a Pakistani actor) being in it brought more authenticity,” Jaffar has said.
Adnan further shared that the scenes were shot in Casablanca, Morocco and that his whole experience was very professional. He added that “playing a Pakistani Army officer was a proud moment” for him.
Adnan began his career as a broadcast journalist for Dawn News. He made his film debut in 2015 in Jalaibee followed by Manto (2015), Moor (2015) and Jeewan Hathi (2016). He has also been part of many successful dramas, the most recent being Daasi and Ruswai.
Meanwhile, Homeland in the past has often come in the line of fire for hurting Muslim and Middle Eastern sentiment. The show has also been criticised for showing Pakistan in a negative light within its storyline.
A short online course on prevention and control of coronavirus has been launched in Pakistan by the Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) in collaboration with the online microlearning platform Gnowbe.
The duration of the course is 30 minutes and it is open to the general public. It is free of cost and those who complete the course will receive an international certification from the School of Health Sciences at Singapore’s leading university Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
An Urdu version of the course is also available so that a larger number of people can access it.
Termed “Stay Protected with Infection Control and Prevention 101 Program” the online course will teach the nature and transmission of the virus.
The course will consist of informative videos, tutorials and quizzes. There are two main topics: Infection Transmission, which details the chain of infection and transmission of diseases, and Infection Prevention, which includes sessions on prevention by hand hygiene and wearing personal protective equipment.
It will be very helpful for those working on the frontline like the Prime Minister’s Tiger Force, field volunteers providing food and critical services, bank employees and law enforcement officers where the infection has the highest chances of spreading.
In Singapore, Gnowbe has already been using its e-learning platform to provide the free course to the general public in eight. The partnership with PSDF will add Urdu to the menu as well.
If you are interested in taking the course, use the following links to access it.
For English: https://learn.gnowbe.com/infection-prevention-control-101
For Urdu: https://be.gnowbe.com/signup/bundle/seykj3?gdid=ng9vvdz36rr6ob7womle
The Punjab government has introduced a new rule for controlling the spread of the pandemic: authorities have made it compulsory for recovered patients to get a permission letter before travelling in and outside the province.
As per reports, the home department announced that the recovered patients of coronavirus will now need a special permission letter for travelling including those belonging to parts of the country and willing to enter into Punjab.
The citizens of Punjab, who have recovered from the virus, will need a permission letter from the concerned authorities to travel to other provinces. The patients discharged from the quarantine centres in other provinces will also need a permission letter to enter into Punjab.
According to the home department, the recovered people could get permission from deputy commissioners from their districts. The home department issued the directives to the chief secretaries and police chiefs of the provinces.
With everyone cooped up at home, there is a lot of time to do things that we have been unable to do otherwise like binge-watching shows or reading.
The Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles, who is a passionate reader, has shared a list of her favourite books, in case anyone was looking for any recommendations. Check them out below:
Meanwhile the Camilla and Prince Charles recently celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary. The couple is self-isolating at their Scotland estate, due to Charles’s testing positive for COVID-19 last month. The two remained separated until Charles was cleared of the virus and Camilla was assured to not show any symptoms.
Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Sadia Taimoor has submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly seeking opening of beauty parlours and hairdressers’ shops in the province.
According to reports, the resolution read: “This sector gives huge amount in terms of taxes to the government, they should be allowed to do business after adopting precautionary measures amid coronavirus outbreak.”
It further said that millions of people are employed in the beauty industry and closure of such businesses is denting the economy and creating hurdles for people.
The Government of Punjab has extended the lockdown till April 14 in a move to control over spread of novel coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the closure of beauty parlours has not only affected lives in Pakistan, but AFP reported that the demand for some brands of hair colour shot up six times in Britain after the first week of the lockdown there.
However, stylists and colourists have advised people not to experiment too much, especially when it comes to the hair and eyebrows.
“Don’t touch your eyebrows above all,” pleaded Olivier Echaudemaison, creative director of the French cosmetics brand Guerlain.
“Let them grow — leave a virgin forest,” said the man who once looked after makeup for screen legends Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren.
Feel free to experiment with makeup, Echaudemaison told AFP, because “if it doesn’t work you just take a tissue and you start again”.
“But anything with hair is a lot more risky,” he warned.
Beauty experts are also advising people not to fall for gimmicks and other hacks they read on the social media, such a beetroot to dye hair.
Social media is full of horror stories of people posting their failed attempts at cutting and colouring their own hair.
French stylist Thomas Girard has been giving up to six free online courses a day to deal with this aesthetic emergency. His advice is to stop immediately if you make a mistake. “The biggest error is thinking that you can fix your mistake by keeping cutting,” he said.
As for roots, he advises just letting them go grey.
“It’s no longer a marker of age, or stigmatising” — in fact, it could be seen as body positive, he argued.
A bank employee in India has found a unique way to disinfect cheques using a hot iron.
A viral video of the cashier shows him holding cheques with a pair of tongs and then ironing them in a desperate attempt to disinfect them. Many people lauded him for his innovation.
The video was shared on Twitter by Indian business conglomerate Anand Mahindra along with a caption: ‘I have no idea if the cashier’s technique is effective but you have to give him credit for his creativity’!
According to a report by NDTV, the banker in the video is an employee of the Bank of Baroda whose creative method of disinfecting the cheques has won the internet, but it is not clear whether the measure is effective.
Miss England 2019 is hanging up her crown (for now) to focus on the coronavirus pandemic.
Bhasha Mukherjee, 24, was a junior doctor specialising in respiratory medicine before competing in the Miss World pageant on behalf of England in December 2019. Although continuing her work at the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, after taking home her Miss England sash, she had planned to put her medical career on hold to travel the world for various humanitarian efforts after her latest competition. However, four weeks into her ambassadorship in India on behalf of Coventry Mercia Lions Club, where she donated stationery to schools and gave money to a home for abandoned girls, news broke that COVID-19 was spreading rapidly back home in the UK.
After Mukherjee started receiving messages from former colleagues about the worsening situation at her hospital, she knew she had to pick up where she had left off. She told CNN she felt she needed to be more hands-on during the pandemic.
“When you are doing all this humanitarian work abroad, you’re still expected to put the crown on, get ready…look pretty,” she said. “I wanted to come back home. I wanted to come and go straight to work.”
“This is what I’d got this degree for and what better time to be part of this particular sector than now?” she said. “It was incredible the way the whole world was celebrating all key workers, and I wanted to be one of those, and I knew I could help.”
On April 5, Queen Elizabeth II made a rare address to the British public, thanking health care and essential workers for their tireless effort responding to COVID-19.
“I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all,” she said. “I’m sure the nation will join me in ensuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.”
The queen finished her speech with a hopeful message. “We can take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return,” she said. “We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again.”
On Wednesday, April 6, Mukherjee returned to England but still has to self-isolate for about two weeks before she can return to work as a doctor at the Pilgrim Hospital, where it’s all hands on deck, according to the pageant queen.
“There’s no better time for me to be Miss England and helping England at a time of need,” she said.
American comedian Jeremy McLallen who is also famous for his funny tweets has managed to rile up Indian social media users after posting an edited picture of himself with Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.
In the image posted on Twitter by Jeremy, the Indian pilot can be seen drinking the famous cup of tea given to him during his 60-hour capture in Pakistan in February last year, with the wreckage of downed Indian Air Force (IAF) Mig-21 fighter jet in the background.
The tweet said, “Stay Home, Stay Safe”.
The post sparked fury among Indian social media users but the comedian continued with his trolling. “Why are Indians messaging me saying he’s a hero. I know he’s a hero that’s why I gave him tea and took a picture with him,” he tweeted later.
He then shared a screenshot of a message by an Indian Twitter user named Amit Kumar who asked McLellan if he (Jeremy) was a terrorist.
McLellan was not done there. He proceeded to post another edited photo of himself with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.