Author: News Desk
A Romanian maternity unit was being investigated on Tuesday after 10 newborns tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with the suspicion they contracted the virus from healthcare staff. “The mothers tested negative, but the babies ...
A minor girl was found dead in Punjab’s Kasur district on Tuesday, allegedly killed by her father over maltreatment by his wife. District Police Officer (DPO) Kasur Zahid Nawaz Marwat said that the police received ...
A growing group of politicians, artists and athletes are returning to their medical roots to assist the health care system which is overstrained due to the ever increasing demand brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Note from ProperGaanda’s editorial team: This article contains updates on the Coronavirus situation in Pakistan which some readers might find distressing or triggering. We urge you to treat your mental health, and that of your loved ...
To curb the spread of fake news through its platform, WhatsApp has added a new feature that will allow users to share frequently forwarded messages to only one chat at a time. Frequently forwarded messages are indicated with a ...
In a recent report published by Vice News outlet, Chinese residents told the news outlet that in China almost everyone believes USA is responsible for the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Army sergeant Maatje Benassi was among ...
At least a dozen 5G phone towers have been set on fire in the U.K. in recent days, apparently by groups who believe the next-generation cell phone technology has caused or exacerbated the spread of ...
The second laboratory test report of a resident of Hussainabad — who died on April 3 as coronavirus patient — from a known private laboratory turned out to be negative for the virus. It perhaps ...
Outfitters has joined the many fashion designers who are using their resources to help out medical professionals during the pandemic of coronavirus. The brand is also working on protective suits for all those healthcare workers ...
Nineteen more relatives of two coronavirus patients tested positive in Gujar Khan after their test reports were released on Monday The new cases were close relatives of two Pakistanis who had returned from the UK ...
The coronavirus pandemic has left humanity utterly helpless. Not only are we helpless to stop the spread of the disease, we are also unable to console our loved ones in their last moments. The pandemic ...
Punjab government has directed private schools in the province to give 20 per cent concession in school fee in addition to collecting the fees of the following two months separately. Furthermore, no employee shall lose ...
Put make-up on. Avoid nagging. Speak in a squeaky cartoon cat voice. These are just some of the steps that women in Malaysia have been asked to follow by the government in order to make ...
A 15-year-old Christian transgender, identified as Musa, was gang-raped and murdered by the ‘local thugs’ in Faisalabad on Saturday. Activist Shaan Taseer posted a photo on Facebook, wherein he demanded Minister for Human Rights Shireen ...
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the US or a tiger anywhere, federal officials ...
Amir Khan is under fire from UK and international tabloids after he made a bizarre claim on his Instagram stories last night pushing a conspiracy theory on coronavirus. Khan took to his personal Instagram to ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. He was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” ...
The Ministry of Planning has estimated that 12.3 million to 18.5 million people in the country will lose their jobs and the economy will sustain Rs2 trillion to Rs2.5 trillion losses in just three months ...
Low testing rates in Pakistan, India and Indonesia risk leaving the authorities blindfolded about the extent of coronavirus transmission in their countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday. The tree Asian countries, which together hold about 25% global ...
Internet usage in Pakistan has increased by 15 per cent as the country adjusts to life under lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. The increase has been observed due to increased online activities by educational institutions and businesses and, ...
Google honoured Pakistani squash icon Hashim Khan by customising his very own doodle where he can be seen hitting every shot on the squash court, at various stages of his life. Who was Hashim Khan? ...
K-pop star Kim Jaejoong has apologised for posting on Instagram that he was in hospital having contracted Covid-19, admitting it was an April fool’s joke. The singer told fans he had caught the virus after ...
A man committed suicide by self-immolation in front of PM Secretariat as a protest against injustice by Murree Police. Police said that the victim, Faisal Aziz, was a resident of Dewal Sharif in Murree. He arrived at ...
Videos have emerged on social media showing sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt giving their fired captain a rousing sendoff as he left the ship. Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of duty for ...
News channel Samaa TV is facing backlash on social media for allegedly practicing racism in its coverage of the coronavirus crisis. In one of its news bulletins, the channel referred to the Sindh government as “sayeen ...
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may spread through the air in tiny particles that infected people exhale during normal breathing and speech. Until now, experts have said that the virus, called SARS-CoV-2, doesn’t spread through the air ...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday gave a nod to turning three- and four-star hotels into ‘quarantine centres’ where the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has planned to keep coronavirus patients. Last month the ...
San Antonio, Texas A man photographs a mural of American rapper Cardi B that has been updated by the artist Colton Valentine to include a face mask on Monday, March 30, 2020. Mumbai, India A ...
A woman in Belgium has died after she refused being put on a ventilator, telling doctors to save it for younger patients. Suzanne Hoylaerts was first taken to her doctor for loss of appetite and ...
Hospitals are scrambling to sterilize and reuse N95 masks, deploying high-tech methods like ultraviolet light and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. But the father of the modern N95 mask thinks a much simpler technique could work: heating ...
Saudi Arabia has imposed a 24-hour curfew in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, extending measures to combat the novel coronavirus, while other Gulf Arab states locked down districts with large migrant worker ...
As the number of coronavirus patients keeps rising, a hope to cope with the challenge emerged here on Thursday when the first person who was reported positive on Feb 26 in the country and recovered ...
Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Major (retd) Azam Suleman Khan has advised police to initially use punishments like making citizens walk back home instead of arresting them for violating Section 144, to sensitise them regarding social distancing, a well-placed source ...
The Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and consumption of cat and dog meat amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. The move comes ...
The total number of global coronavirus cases have crossed 1 million and the number is rising at a rapid rate with thousands of new cases emerging from around the world. The death toll has also crossed 51,000 ...
On Thursday, the Sindh High Court overturned the murder conviction of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the man who was found guilty for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The court ...
It’s hard to image the icy Antarctic as a lush rainforest, but that’s what it was almost 90 million years ago, a time when dinosaurs freely roamed the earth. The discovery was made based on ...
Business giant Engro has announced it would be pledging Rs1billion to the prime minister’s relief fund for coronavirus. “Mr Hussain Dawood, today, on behalf of Engro, Dawood Hercules and his family pledged a contribution in ...
India has begun converting 20,000 railway carriages into isolation wards to deal with an expected surge in coronavirus cases. Each of the carriages will be converted into medical facilities containing 16 beds each, meaning a ...
Doctors across Pakistan and all over the world are on the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic. While a lot of them are working tirelessly in hospitals – isolating themselves from their families and risking their ...
Spain’s death toll from coronavirus has now reached 8,102. The country confirmed the world’s largest daily death increase today after a further 950 people died after testing positive for Covid-19. There are currently 110,238 confirmed ...
The watchdog for higher education has taken note of the complaints about poor quality of online university courses in the country and is ensuring corrective measures. On Wednesday, HEC said it moved on multiple complaints ...
When you think about comfort food, Covid-19 themed cookies and burgers are the last things that come to mind. But a few chefs are turning to humour to help cope with the scale of what ...
In a significant development in the war against coronavirus pandemic, the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) has claimed to have developed a coronavirus vaccine prototype. The institute’s director, Shmuel Shapira, informed this to the ...
The vaccines, made by Oxford University and US company Inovio Pharmaceutical, have been cleared for animal testing by the World Health Organization. Australia’s national science agency will assess if the vaccines work, and if they ...
Kharian Cantonment police on Wednesday booked a doctor and two others for alleged murder of a young woman working as a maid in their house, after the report of her Covid-19 test was found to ...
The heads of three global agencies, FAO,WHO &WTO warned on Wednesday of a potential worldwide food shortage if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Many governments around the world have put their ...
Professor Mohammad Saeed Quraishy, the Vice Chancellor of Dow University of Health Sciences is leading a team of researchers in Pakistan, which think the novel coronavirus responsible for local transmission is not genetically the same ...
The global death toll from coronavirus has continued to climb, worsening on Wednesday as it hits 882,068, with 44,136 deaths. António Guterres , the United Nations Secretary has said the outbreak that has infected hundreds ...
The ongoing pandemic has made many things clear, one of which is the stark disparity in how Covid-19 is impacting the poor as compared to those of means-especially those belonging to the coveted one percent. ...
Popular video-conferencing Zoom is leaking personal information of at least thousands of users, including their email address and photo, and giving strangers the ability to attempt to start a video call with them through Zoom. ...
Thousands of migrant workers in India have been sprayed with a bleach disinfectant after they returned home during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Video captured by a reporter in the northern city of Bareilly shows migrants ...
Facebook and Twitter have taken action on a video from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, removing it for infringing on their misinformation policies. The video, as reported by BBC News Brasil, showed Bolsonaro talking to a street ...
A recent report from the CDC from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that Coronavirus RNA was found on the Diamond Princess ship 17 days after the passengers had vacated the premises-the ...
By banishing the word “coronavirus” from the Turkmen vocabulary in a radical move to suppress all information about the pandemic, Turkmenistan’s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. The state-controlled ...
Novel coronavirus has impacted 200 countries and territories, with the total confirmed cases hitting 857,487. While the pandemic is ravaging America, Spain, Italy and many others, there are a handful of countries that still haven’t ...
Saudi Arabia’s Haj minister asked Muslims on Tuesday to temporarily defer preparations for Haj amid uncertainty over the pandemic. Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia suspended Umrah over fears of the new coronavirus. “Saudi Arabia is ...
A six-month-old girl has tested positive for coronavirus in Gujrat after her father was declared a Covid-19 patient around a week ago. The infant is being kept at home, while her mother will also be ...
According to US state and county health agencies, the coronavirus death toll in America has crossed 3,000 – a number which is unfortunately much higher than the number of lives lost in the 9/11 terror ...
The Netherlands has become the latest European country to dump what it says is substandard Chinese-made equipment in the fight against coronavirus, recalling more than half a million face masks from hospitals after they failed ...
As new cases keep on increasing day by day, Pakistan’s resources at providing protective gear for the people fighting the virus on the front line are decreasing exponentially too. However, there are people out there ...
Houseparty’s popularity has surged during a time when people are separated from friends and loved one due to social distancing, self-isolation, quarantines and lockdowns. The app initially launched in 2016 after which it was acquired ...
A painting by Vincent van Gogh with an estimated value of up to £5m has been stolen from a Dutch museum currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The thieves took Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Neunen ...
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Monday bracketed Pakistan among the countries which would be the hardest-hit by the global pandemic of coronavirus, demanding a raft of measures for their relief. UNCTAD ...
The PML-N has alleged that the Imran Kahn government is using the Corona Relief Fund for its political agenda, therefore a parliamentary monitoring committee must be formed to ensure oversight and transparency. Presiding over a ...
Karachi’s mortuaries were closed across the city on Sunday, after two bodies brought into Edhi’s morgue were suspected to be those of patients who had died due to the Coronavirus. “The morgues have been closed ...
Asim Jofa along with his team has made a pecial protective gear for medical staff that continues to work in hospitals in order to treat patients suffering from Covid-19. In a video uploaded on Instagram, ...
The Sindh government has reported six new coronavirus cases due to local transmission of the novel coronavirus in Karachi on Monday. The provincial tally have now risen to 508, which is 30.5% of the total ...
Nearly a 100 hawksbill turtles, which are critically endangered, hatched on a deserted beach in Brazil, as the usual crowds didn’t show due to restrictions on public gatherings on the region’s sands. 97 tartarugas-de-pente, as ...
Peter Levine, a dad from Nanuet New York, refused to let his 21 year old son Matt Levine into the house after he returned home from spring break in South Padre Island, Texas, where he ...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly moved to California, after leaving their rental in Vancouver, Canada and taking a private flight to the US before the border closed between both countries last week. In ...
The ongoing pandemic and increasing number of cases in Pakistan, which now number above 1500, and the ensuing lockdown has stranded twenty-six Pakistani nationals in India. The Wagah-Attari border crossing point was closed on 13 ...
SAPM Firdous Ashiq Awan addressed media following a core committee meeting of the PTI. During the address she stated that doctors and paramedics in Punjab, who are working during the pandemic will get one month’s ...
A member of the Tableeghi Jamat, who was placed in quarantine in the Layyah district of Punjab, tried to escape isolation after attacking a policeman with a knife. The injured policeman has been shifted to ...
In a time when Saudi Arabia is scrambling to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the kingdom, with cases touching 1,200, the country’s air defences intercepted two ballistic missiles above Riyadh, the kingdom’s capital, and ...
Local officials have subjected people caught breaking lockdown rules to humiliating and abusive punishments, locking them in cramped dog cages or forcing them to sit in the harsh midday sun, according to reports. Reports of ...
Zoom, a video conferencing app has become an essential for all businesses worldwide during the hard times of the ongoing pandemic. Video conferencing is how everyone is holding meetings these days. Be it official business ...
April Fools’ Day is one of the most annoying internet traditions, but this year Google — infamous for its numerous elaborate pranks that typically touch on nearly every major product the company makes — won’t be participating ...
The global economy is stuck in an unprecedented kind of recession that necessitates international cooperation, the International Monetary Fund chief, Kristalina Georgieva, told CNBC on Friday. Despite forecasts of a recession arriving in the second quarter, ...
The family of a respected British-Pakistani doctor in Essex confirmed his death on Friday in what was said to be the first coronavirus-related death of a doctor in the United Kingdom. The family of Dr ...
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Friday announced the “Nishan-e-Kashmir” — the state’s highest official award — for Doctor Usama Riaz of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) for carrying out his duty to ...
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as 5 minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting. ...
In a time when everyone is fearing the outcome of coronavirus, a 101 year old Italian man has been released from a hospital in the Italian city of Rimini, after recovering from the novel coronavirus. ...
In response to the critical shortage of ICU beds amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit design/build collective CURA has proposed an innovative solution: repurposing shipping containers into rapidly deployable ICU pods. “The response to the emergency ...
A man fatally injured by the FBI was planning a bomb attack on a medical facility in the Kansas City area, the agency said in a news release on Wednesday. Timothy Wilson, 36, was injured on Tuesday ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for Covid-19, Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has mild symptoms and will self-isolate in Downing Street. The statement said, He was tested for coronavirus on the personal ...
New York state coronavirus deaths spiked to 385, with 100 new deaths recorded in a single day as Governor Andrew Cuomo warned residents on Thursday that the state’s situation was increasingly dire. The death toll ...
Days after an influencer, GayShawnMendes, who took part in a ‘Coronavirus challenge’ which involved licking the edge of a toilet seat, says he has tested positive for the disease. The challenge, which started on TikTok ...
Police sent two convicted cannibal brothers to the tehsil headquarters hospital for coronavirus test in Darya Khan on Thursday. The man-eating siblings, Arif and Farman, were later sent back from the hospital due to the ...
On a Sindh High Court order, the district courts have released 829 prisoners involved in minor crimes from the detention facilities across Sindh over the last few days amid the provincial government’s decision to categorise ...
The Sindh government has inducted some 3,000 volunteers — more than 30 among them are doctors and over 300 IT professionals — in less than a week on its appeal to fight the growing number ...
Ten million people belonging to low-income groups will get a Rs12,000 four-month stipend in a lump sum under Prime Minister Imran Khan’s relief package announced by the federal government on Tuesday to mitigate adverse impact ...
Coronavirus is a “biological agent,” and using it to purposely get other people sick could be a crime violating federal terrorism laws, according to a memo sent by a top Department of Justice official in ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown Tuesday night, in an attempt to prevent a devastating outbreak. But as 1.3 billion people are ordered not to leave their homes, some doctors ...
Boxer Amir Khan has offered the British health authorities his luxurious four-story building to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The facility was meant to open as a wedding venue in August but Khan is now ready ...
Gordon Ramsay has been slammed for laying off more than 500 staff members amid the coronavirus crisis. The celebrity chef was forced to briefly shut down a string of his restaurants due to the global ...
A US man has been charged with making a terrorism threat after allegedly filming himself licking items in a supermarket saying ‘Who’s afraid of coronavirus?’ Cody Pfister, 26, was arrested after a video of him ...
President Dr Arif Alvi reached out to Egypt’s Al-Azhar, requesting the suspension of congregational Friday prayers in mosques to control the spread of the coronavirus across Pakistan. “I am thankful to Grand Imam Shaikh of ...
With a lockdown in place in Pakistan, universities and educational institutions have also been closed down. More than 300 million students are at home across the globe, due to government directives. But soon after students ...
As of Wednesday night, 25th March, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases stand at 1026 in Pakistan. All provinces have been placed under a lockdown, which is being enforced by the armed forces who are ...
On Wednesday, life started to return to normal in the Hubei province of China, after a lockdown that lasted two months. Hubei, a province of 60 million people, was the epicentre of China’s COVID-19 outbreak. The ...
The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, ...
Seeing as Pakistan has already crossed 1000 confirmed cases and has 7 deaths confirmed by the time this article was written, the most pressing question at this moment is: Is Pakistan’s healthcare system ready for ...
The US has been appealing to its allies for help in obtaining medical supplies to overcome critical shortages in its fight against coronavirus. In his public rhetoric Donald Trump has been talking up the domestic private sector ...
On Wednesday 25 March, 2020, a LPG tank collapsed in Lahore Shadhra Chawk. The explosion reportedly happened on a petrol station and 3 were injured. It was a huge explosion causing people to panic. CM ...
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who inspired the global school climate strikes, says it is “extremely likely” she has had the Covid-19 virus. The teenager, whose solo protest outside the Swedish parliament kickstarted the global ...
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 743 to 6,820, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, reversing a decline in fatalities seen over the last ...
Though President Donald Trump insists the US should soon be “open for business,” the World Health Organization has instead warned that the US could soon become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. A WHO spokeswoman, ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved a multi-billion rupee relief package for different segments of society who are vulnerable to the adverse impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the country’s economy. The package was ...
China reported 78 new cases of the deadly coronavirus on Tuesday, with the vast majority brought in from overseas as fears rise of a second wave of infections. The first new case in nearly a ...
The Tokyo Olympics are headed toward the first postponement since the modern games began in the 19th century, as national teams arrange to pull out and Japan’s leader acknowledged a delay may be unavoidable due ...
A drug that was presented and then rejected as a cure for the ebola virus is now being seen as the best option to treat COVID-19. Remdesivir, manufactured by US company Gilead Sciences, is currently the subject of ...
A man died after ingesting an additive used to clean fish tanks — which included a pharmaceutical drug touted by President Trump and others as a potential coronavirus cure. Within 30 minutes of taking chloroquine phosphate, the man in ...
Global death toll passes 15,000 According to Johns Hopkins University, the global death toll from coronavirus has passed 15,000 and currently stands at 15,300. The number of confirmed cases stands at 351,731. The Tokyo Olympics ...
EoceanEm, a leading enterprise mobility solutions provider in Pakistan has partnered with PTA to provide a brief message about coronavirus. The message can be heard instead of ringtone when a user places a call. The initiative was announced by Tania Aidrus, ...
By June this year, more than 20 million could be impacted by the virus in Pakistan alone. Pakistan is about to get overwhelmed, unless the federal government takes swift action and average citizens start playing ...
The United Nations released its World Happiness Report on Friday and Pakistan, stood at 66 ranks among the 156 countries that were a part of the survey. On top of the charts is Finland rated as ...
A young physician, Dr Osama Riaz, became the first Pakistani doctor who died of coronavirus which he had contracted while physically handling suspected COVID-19 patients returning to Gilgit-Baltistan from overseas and other parts of Pakistan. ...
Former Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus while in prison. He is now in isolation, according to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and ...
Six officials of the district administration in Khairpur were suspended for having a selfie with their colleague who tested positive for coronavirus, according to officials and a document issued on Sunday. They said the deputy ...
Canada and Australia will not send athletes to the Summer Olympic Games this year if the games aren’t delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday. In a statement, the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic ...
On 21st March, renowned activist, speaker and currently a professor at Forman Christian College Lahore, Dr. Ammar Ali Jan accused Generation and Limelight of firing their workers on the 1st of April. A video ProperGaanda ...
Starting 9 00 PM tonight, all shopping malls, markets and public places will be closed in Punjab until 9 AM on Tuesday, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar announced. Pharmacies, petrol pumps and grocery stores will be ...
Bob a senior citizen residing in Vernon, Connecticut completed 67 years of being happily married to his wife Nancy. However, because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the nursing homes were taking precautions and the couple ...
Quebec City police have arrested a woman, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, for being out in the city’s Limoilou neighbourhood despite being under a quarantine order. The woman, who is potentially contagious, was ...
A second pet dog in Hong Kong has repeatedly tested positive for the Covid-19 virus after its owner was confirmed as being infected, the government said. The German Shepherd living in the Pok Fu Lam area on ...
In an incredible show of both solidarity and generosity, Netflix has established a coronavirus relief fund that will distribute $100 million to entertainment industry workers who have lost their jobs amid the industry-wide shutdown stemming ...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Balochistan has risen to 96. In Quetta alone, 56 people tested positive in a single day on March 19. The patients were first kept in isolation at the ...
As the coronavirus spreads through the world, so do the wild myths and theories about how to prevent and cure the illness. The latest myth that is circulating on Twitter and among the WhatsApp conspiracy ...
Family member of a Former senator of Lahore has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus after attending a 60-persons gathering inside the city. It was reported that the family member attended a gathering at a posh ...
It’s hard to imagine a phrase like silver linings being used for a pandemic which is wreaking havoc across the globe, causing hysteria and panic. But, there is positive news out there, which shows that ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered opening of the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman “despite global pandemic” to support Afghan “brothers and sisters” as the region feels the pinch of the novel coronavirus outbreak. In an early Friday ...
In an opinion piece recently published in Dawn news reported that Usman Buzdar, the Chief Minister of Punjab, reportedly said, “Yeh corona kaat-ta kaisay hai? (how does this corona bite)?” In the piece, Fahd Hussain, ...
An Asian woman was the victim of a racist tirade by a passenger on a subway because of the coronavirus pandemic. Elen Chen began filming the offensive remarks when another man stepped in to defend ...
India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn at Tihar Jail ...
Dettol, which sells disinfectant sprays and wipes, and hand sanitizers, has launched a TikTok challenge aimed at getting more people in India to wash their hands, where the virus has 153 confirmed cases, but where testing ...
Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day. The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in China ...
New C.D.C. (Centre for Disease Control) data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients which were hospitalised because of the virus were of the age 20 to 54. Although risk of dying still remains significantly ...
The government of Gilgit-Baltistan on Wednesday retracted its earlier statement regarding a patient dying in the region from the coronavirus, saying that the provincial spokesperson had not confirmed the news before breaking it. Multiple news ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global health crisis afflicting almost every country and territory in the world. As the virus spreads across the globe, different countries stand at different stages of the COVID-19 ...
An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday underlines a message that infectious disease experts have been emphasizing: Millennials are not invincible. The new data show that up to one-fifth of infected people ...
For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak started, China has reported no new domestic transmissions of Covid-19, a major milestone in the country’s fight against the pandemic. China’s national health commission said on Thursday ...
Mass quarantine facilities are being set up in Karachi, Sindh, following the example of the Sukkur quarantine centre that can accommodate at least 10,000 people in isolation simultaneously. The number of cases in Sindh has ...
TikTok moderators were told to suppress videos from users who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled, as part of the company’s efforts to curate an aspirational air in the videos it promotes, according to new documents ...
The government has decided to postpone O and A level examinations of Cambridge due in May and June on account of coronavirus outbreak in the country. In view of the threat of COVID-19 in the ...
The first known dog to test positive for the coronavirus has reportedly died in Hong Kong after apparently recovering from the disease, according to local media. The pooch, a 17-year-old Pomeranian dog, passed away this ...
A Hindu Nationalist group recently hosted a cow urine drinking party this Saturday believing it would ward off coronavirus. The event was hosted by a far right hindu group called the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha ...
Dozens of students of the Sheikh Zayed Nursing College (SZNC) refused to perform duties during the coronavirus emergency and held a protest against the hospital’s administration for forcing them to perform duty in the hospital ...
The first human clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine was administered Monday. Four volunteers were given their first of two shots of the vaccine. Forty-five volunteers are expected to participate in this trial. The vaccine ...
The number one trending film on Netflix in Pakistan is Fifty Shades Freed, the third instalment of the popular BDSM-inspired 50 Shades of Grey franchise. And honestly, nothing can be more ironic than this. Pakistan, much like the ...
Astronomers have spotted hundreds of tiny worlds lurking in the deep, dark outer reaches of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. These minor planets, known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), “are relics of major ...
Google is giving everybody free access to its advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing features for free until July 1, as businesses and schools have been impacted by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Google announced the news in a ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual Met Gala, scheduled to take place on May 4, has been postponed indefinitely. The gala, often referred to as fashion’s biggest night out and the ...
The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as Donald Trump referred to the pathogen as the “Chinese Virus.” Trump’s allies had previously ...
The number of confirmed patients of coronavirus may increase substantially in Punjab as some 780 suspected patients have been kept in quarantine at a university in Dera Ghazi Khan and most of them show typical ...
China’s fight against the coronavirus may get affected due to a rise in imported cases after 20 people from abroad were found with the infection, while the country only reported on new domestic case on ...
President Donald Trump said Monday the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands and brought life in countries across the world grinding to a halt could end by July in the United States. So it seems ...
Dozens of Afghan patients which were held in isolation in a quarantine facility in western Afghanistan escaped after attacking hospital staff and damaging hospital property. The escapees also include one patient who has been confirmed ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the formation of a media wing to ‘defend’ the government and respond to its opponents. According to Geo News, the media wing is being formed under ministry for information ...
The Trump administration offered “large sums of money” to a German biopharmaceutical firm to move its research on a coronavirus vaccine to the US. The German daily reported that the White House attempt to relocate CareVac, a research company based in ...
The Sindh government has begun to seal major restaurants in Karachi to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Karachi police is taking action against the hotels and restaurants violating the government’s orders of limiting large gatherings. ...
Internet providers are doing what they can to help Americans working from home or students sent home from school amid the coronavirus pandemic. Comcast announced that they will offer two months of free internet services ...
The coronvirus pandemic will remain in the UK until at least next Spring and 80% of Britons ‘are expected’ to be infected with it, according to a leaked Public Health England document. The document, seen ...
Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, from national quarantines to closing schools. “Lockdown” isn’t a technical term used by public health officials, but Italy, China, El ...
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is introducing a dedicated shopping hour that will only allow elderly and disabled people to purchase items. Starting March 17 shopping between 7 am and 8 am will be exclusive to ...
Sindh education authorities on Monday decided that the new academic year in the province will start from June 1. Addressing a press conference here in Karachi after chairing a meeting of the Program Steering Committee, ...
Local police on Sunday successfully stopped an underage marriage by raiding the wedding venue here in the city’s Hayat Colony. At least three people were arrested, according to police. The wedding had been arranged without ...
With the mounting stress in markets around the globe, coronavirus is proving to be as infectious economically as medically if not more. Pakistan’s inaction and complete neglect of the economic side of the pandemic challenge ...
As many as 358 children — 252 boys and 106 girls — became victims of child abuse in Sindh between 2014 and 2019, it emerged on Sunday. A recent police study about child abuse cases ...
The number of confirmed cases rose in Pakistan has risen to 137 after a sharp increase in cases was reported among pilgrims who have recently returned from Iran via Taftan. According to the Sindh Health ...
The Punjab government on Sunday imposed Section 144 for three weeks across the province to check hoarding of food items and sanitisers and opening of public and private educational institutions, while allowing holding of weddings ...
Wednesday, 29 April, 2020 More than 300 have died from coronavirus in Pakistan Total number of dead coronavirus patients in Pakistan hits 322 while over 3000 have also recovered from the novel coronavirus. Punjab has ...
Bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor Mosque, honouring the 51 worshippers who lost their lives in Christchurch’s mass shooting Dozens of bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor ...
Pakistan’s national tally of coronavirus has now risen to 31, with cases reported in Sindh and Islamabad. On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Imran Khan made his first public statement on the pandemic via twitter. In ...
A new case of COVID-19 was reported in Karachi today. The total number of cases in Sindh has reached 16. The new case is a 38-year-old man who travelled from Saudi Arabia, confirmed the Sindh ...
Two armed motorcyclists attacked a car in Gulberg after Friday prayers, killing a man and injuring his son. The victim has been identified as 49-year-old Ghulam Fareed and his son as Arsalan. They were in ...
Islamabad reported another coronavirus case in the country, taking the total tally of the cases across the country to 29. The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) officials confirmed a 30-year-old woman, who had travelled ...
The exam schedule for O and A-Level examinations is not being changed as the world grapples with coronavirus outbreak. Pakistan country director of the Cambridge Assessment International Education confirmed in a statement that the exams ...
Taking to Instagram, Mehwish shared a teaser of her interview and captioned, “Excited that my interview for BBC World will be out soon. Great concept created by Angelia Jolie for the first TV show she ...
Saudi Arabia annouced it would suspend international flights for two weeks as prevention protocol for the coronavirus outbreak. “The Kingdom’s government decided to suspend international flights for two weeks (Starting from Sunday March 15) as ...
The chief minister has issued these orders while he was chairing a meeting of the taskforce made to monitor the coronavirus situation in the Sindh province. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered the closure ...
Turkey has halted flights with nine European countries, including France, Germany and Spain. “From 8:00 am (0500 GMT) tomorrow, Saturday, flights will be stopped until April 17 to Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, ...
Minister for Information and Local Governments in Sindh, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, has announced a prize for research students and institutes that develop a proper vaccine for novel coronavirus. In a video message on Friday, ...
A Chinese government spokesman said on Thursday that the US Army may have “brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” appearing to push a popular coronavirus conspiracy theory in China. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Ministry ...
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that academic institutions country-wide will be kept closed until April 5. Institutions include all schools and universities, both public and private as well as vocational institutions and seminaries, he ...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday decided to cut short the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 and hold the final match of the tournament on March 18 instead of March 23. According to ...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has refused to send its team to Pakistan for the remaining matches citing coronavirus fears, media reports said. The Bengal Tigers are scheduled to play a one-off ODI and a Test ...
Doctors in India have recently been scratching their heads after a hand transplant patient’s new hands appear to have turned the same color as the rest of her skin. Shreya Siddanagowda received a double hand transplant in ...
The 74-year-old patient died from coronavirus in India, making it the country’s first fatality. The patient had recently returned from Saudi Arabia. 70 cases have been reported in India so far. New Dehli’s has reported ...
Shares dropped in Asia on Friday, with those in Japan, Thailand and India going down as much as 10 percent after Wall Street suffered its greatest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Why ...
A group of men allegedly raped a minor boy at gunpoint in the city’s Sohal locality, police sources said Thursday, adding that the suspects were yet to be arrested. According to sources from the Faisalabad police, ...
The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Thursday confirmed that 21 of its students who returned from Turkey after participating in a Model United Nations (MUN) conference have tested negative for coronavirus. In a ...
A man who burnt five women, including his wife and mother-in-law to death has confessed to the crime, saying he was “extremely angry” that his wife had allegedly cheated on him, police confirmed on Thursday. ...
“Having recently returned from a speaking engagement in London, U.K., the Prime Minister’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau began exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms including a low fever late last night……. She is self-isolating at home awaiting ...
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Tennis star Sania Mirza recently played against Indonesia at the Fed Cup tournament held in Dubai on March 8. While India went on to win the match, an image from the match depicting Sania Mirza ...
A mentally-handicapped woman was reportedly gang-raped in Tehsil Paharpur District in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Three men forcibly broke into the house of the victim at midnight and sexually assaulted her. Later, the ...
Advisor to the Chief Minister on Law Murtaza Wahab tweeted on Thursday that all Pakistan Super League (PSL 2020) matches in Karachi will be held without the crowd. The National Stadium in Karachi had been ...
Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday barred Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) from the screening of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha. The committee said that it would decide the film’s fate after reviewing ...
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