01/05/2020
COVID-19 Corona Virus (2020) 🦠😷🧤😥
Today is Thursday , April 30, 2020.
- We are at 43+ days of social isolation and completely lockdown.
- The dollar is worth 161PKR, the euro 175 Pkr and the pound 200 PKR.
- Petrol price is 97 Rupees/ litr expexting to be 70/litre this week.
- Schools have been closed since mid March and are teaching remotely on-line. This will continue for the rest of the school year (maybe).
-Only general stores, bakery, milkshops and marts are allowed to open from 9:00 Am to 5:00 PM.
- There are lines / tapes inside the stores to keep people 6 feet apart and directing people which way to walk.
-Restaurants only for home delivery & pick-up.
- Parks, beaches and walk-in places are not accessible to the public. CLOSED!
- All sports competitions have been cancelled.
- All festivals and entertainment events have been banned.
-Even Ramadan taraveehs are banned for public including Jummah prayers and 5 times prayer at mosque.
- Weddings, family celebrations and birthdays have been cancelled. Funerals limited to 10 people or less onky relatives allowed.
- People are doing only Nikka ceremony in their homes.
- Young kids can’t understand why they can only see grandparents & other extended family and friends on a screen or thru a window if someone visits in person.
- We have to stay away from each other more than a meter.
- Shortage of masks and gloves in hospitals.
- There are fewer ventilators than there should be.
- People are wearing masks, some places even REQUIRE that you wear them to enter! People are even making their own masks for sale or donation to medical facilities!
- Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, antibacterial wipes and anything Lysol or Clorox is in short supply and limited 1 per person.... IF you can even find them!
- Australia, USA, Canada, UAE and Europe almost all countries have closed their borders.
- No one is travelling for leisure. Airports empty. Tourism has the worst crisis in history.
-Till now 3.1 million Covid-19 actives cases and 219k People deaths and 900k recovered patients.
-USA alone has 1million Active corona patients and 60k deaths.
Why do I post this?
Next year & then every year after, this status will appear in my Facebook memories feed. And it will be an annual reminder that life is precious & that nothing should be taken for granted. We are where we are with what we have. Let's be grateful.
