AGL 40.00 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
AIRLINK 127.34 Increased By ▲ 0.30 (0.24%)
BOP 6.62 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-0.75%)
CNERGY 4.49 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.44%)
DCL 8.58 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.35%)
DFML 41.72 Increased By ▲ 0.28 (0.68%)
DGKC 87.50 Increased By ▲ 0.65 (0.75%)
FCCL 32.40 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (0.37%)
FFBL 64.99 Increased By ▲ 0.19 (0.29%)
FFL 10.24 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.1%)
HUBC 109.45 Decreased By ▼ -0.12 (-0.11%)
HUMNL 14.80 Increased By ▲ 0.12 (0.82%)
KEL 5.08 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.59%)
KOSM 7.56 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (1.34%)
MLCF 41.40 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.05%)
NBP 59.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.91 (-1.51%)
OGDC 192.39 Increased By ▲ 2.29 (1.2%)
PAEL 28.17 Increased By ▲ 0.34 (1.22%)
PIBTL 7.79 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.51%)
PPL 151.35 Increased By ▲ 1.29 (0.86%)
PRL 26.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.58 (-2.16%)
PTC 16.15 Increased By ▲ 0.08 (0.5%)
SEARL 83.30 Decreased By ▼ -2.70 (-3.14%)
TELE 7.77 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.78%)
TOMCL 35.48 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (0.2%)
TPLP 8.10 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.25%)
TREET 16.05 Decreased By ▼ -0.36 (-2.19%)
TRG 53.15 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-0.26%)
UNITY 26.25 Increased By ▲ 0.09 (0.34%)
WTL 1.26 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
BR100 9,985 Increased By 101.4 (1.03%)
BR30 31,147 Increased By 547.3 (1.79%)
KSE100 94,188 Increased By 832.7 (0.89%)
KSE30 29,173 Increased By 241.9 (0.84%)

The British government on Friday said it would help cover the wages of people hit by the coronavirus outbreak as it tightened restrictions to curb the spread of the disease.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told cafes, pubs, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, theatres and leisure centres to shut as soon as possible to cut the risk of transmission from close contact.
"We need to keep people apart," he told a news conference, adding the situation would be kept under monthly review, as the UK death toll climbed to 177.
Finance minister Rishi Sunak meanwhile announced what he said was an "unprecedented economic intervention" to protect jobs, after a wave of redundancies caused by a slump in business.
The chancellor of the exchequer earlier this week announced a £330-billion ($385 billion, 361-billion-euro) package of government-backed loans to help business.
But he said there was also a need to protect individuals.
"The government is going to step in and help to pay people's wages," he said.
Firms of any size or non-profits can apply for a grant for up to 80 percent of salaries of retained workers up to a total of £2,500 ($2,900) a month.
The payments will be backdated to March 1 and be available for about three months, although he did not rule out extending the scheme.
In other measures, he announced a deferment in payment of sales tax for the next quarter to the end of June, which he said was a cash injection for firms worth £30 billion or 1.5 percent of GDP.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2020

Comments

Comments are closed.