Islamabad: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Sunday resumed flight operations for Saudi Arabia after the Kingdom announced reopening of borders and the resumption of international flights following a two-week suspension aimed to stem the spread of a new COVID-19 strain.
A PIA spokesperson said passengers would be able to travel to Saudi Arabia from Jan 3 after a notification was issued by the Kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation allowing the resumption of flight operations. Previously, Pakistanis were only allowed to return from the country.
“Passengers can contact the national flag carrier’s call centre or visit the offices to activate old bookings or make new ones,” the spokesperson said, adding that a COVID -19 PCR test would be mandatory for all passengers before travel.
New cases
Pakistan reported another 53 deaths in one day taking the overall number of COVID-19 casualties in the country to 10,311. During the same period, 2,272 new cases were also reported and with these latest additions, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged to 486,634, reported the Ministry of Health’s website on Sunday.
According to the health ministry’s portal, 1,686 patients were recovered from the virus during the period and with this addition, the total number of recoveries from COVID-19 in the country have jumped to 440,660. The number of active cases in the country are still more than 35,000.
According to the health authorities, there is no let-up in new cases of COVID-19 or deaths caused due to the virus in the near future. In Islamabad alone, at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) there are 60 patients on the ventilators.
Doctor dies
Sunday turned out to be an ominous day for doctors community of Islamabad as a senior histopathologist at the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) Hospital of Islamabad Dr Umar Farooq Barki breathed his last while another at the Children Hospital of PIMS Dr Manzoor was put on ventilator upon deteriorating health condition.
A young COVID-19 positive mother gave birth to a healthy baby girl at Hyderabad Sindh’s Liaquat University Hospital, the first such operation since the outbreak of the pandemic last year in February.
Immediately, after the birth, the baby was separated from the mother who was shifted to COVID-19 isolation unit of the hospital. The baby was transferred to a private hospital for care.
“The mother was quite scared after learning she had tested positive for Covid-19,” said a gynaecologist at the hospital.
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