Coronavirus: Pakistan halts domestic passenger flights
Pakistan Wednesday halted all domestic passenger flights to stop the spread of the new coronavirus after reporting nearly 1,000 cases the country, just as Libya became the latest at-risk Mideast nation to report its first infection. The announcement by Libya's UN-backed govt leaves just war-torn Yemen as the last country in the Mideast to not have a reported case of the new virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes. In Pakistan, the domestic flight ban will begin Thursday, a civil aviation spokesman said. Islamabad previously cut train service and international flights. Initially, most of those infected were Pakistani pilgrims returning from neighbouring hard-hit Iran, which has seen the Mideast's worst outbreak of the virus. Now, however, the virus is being reported in people who had no travel history, officials say. <br/>
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Coronavirus: Pakistan halts domestic passenger flights
Pakistan Wednesday halted all domestic passenger flights to stop the spread of the new coronavirus after reporting nearly 1,000 cases the country, just as Libya became the latest at-risk Mideast nation to report its first infection. The announcement by Libya's UN-backed govt leaves just war-torn Yemen as the last country in the Mideast to not have a reported case of the new virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes. In Pakistan, the domestic flight ban will begin Thursday, a civil aviation spokesman said. Islamabad previously cut train service and international flights. Initially, most of those infected were Pakistani pilgrims returning from neighbouring hard-hit Iran, which has seen the Mideast's worst outbreak of the virus. Now, however, the virus is being reported in people who had no travel history, officials say. <br/>
