Tag: Coronavirus
What the Ministry of National Health Services is saying: Dr Nausheen Hamid, Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of NHS, has stated Pakistan will receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of January. Currently, ...
What happened: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has stated that approval has been given for the registration of the rapid test kit. The chief executive officer (CEO) of DRAP Asim Rauf said that with ...
Ting Mong are the Cambodian version of scarecrows, they are made to resemble humans, more than the regular scarecrows that can be found in other countries, in an effort to trick evil spirits into believing ...
Militiamen warring against Islamic State in Najaf, Iraq are burying coronavirus victims, following the Muslim and Christian burial rituals. Paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim, who previously treated fellow Shi’ite Muslim militiamen fighting the Islamic State, claimed, “ ...
The Punjab Government has officially permitted the opening of all markets, bazaars and businesses five days a week with longer working hours. The decision comes despite recent reports from Punjab’s primary and secondary health department ...
In response to member states lifting restrictions too soon, the World Health Organization’s emergency head, Dr. Mike Ryan predicted an “immediate second peak.” He also said, “ we cannot make assumptions that just because the ...
On Monday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Zafar Mirza, warned that ‘strict lockdowns’ could be reimposed across the country as the number of coronavirus cases showed an upward trend; he also ...
The total number of confirmed cases worldwide has passed five million, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The exact number is 5,000,038. However, it needs to be noted that differing testing rates and definitions, underreporting, ...
On Monday night, US Democrat Nancy Pelosi called Trump “morbidly obese” when discussing his decision to take hydroxychloroquine to sheath off COVID-19 concerns. Speaking to a CNN correspondent, she asserted that she would “rather he ...
The World Health Organisation has warned that coronavirus “may never go away” as its experts predicted that a global mental health crisis caused by the pandemic was looming. The global health body on Wednesday cautioned ...
The coronavirus pandemic may last until 2022, according to a report published by a group of researchers at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). Experts suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak won’t end until 60% ...
A Lithuanian airport turned into a drive-in cinema as movie theatres remain closed. On Wednesday, close to 150 cars turned up at Lithuania’s main international airport to watch the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite” on the airports ...
Official global death toll crosses 225,000 At least 227,644 people have lost their lives to Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The number of confirmed cases is more than 3,193,961 globally. Trump says China ...
On Tuesday, novel coronavirus cases topped 1 million in the United States. According to a Reuters tally, the US now makes up one-third of all infections in the world. 56,500+ Americans have died due to ...
The national flag of Pakistan has been projected on the Switzerland’s Matterhorn mountain in order to show solidarity with the Pakistanis fighting coronavirus pandemic, reported Ary News The photo was shared on the official social ...
With property and share prices changing, and young people caught up in intense paranoia, demand for wills is skyrocketing. The elderly are concerned about revising old wills while young people want to prepare for an ...
Pakistan has requested to operate special flights to bring stranded Pakistani’s in the United States back home because of the lockdown. The Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of the PIA Air Marshal Arshad Malik wrote to ...
President Donald Trump has announced that funds to the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been suspended. Previously, the United States was the largest donor to the WHO but President Donald Trump has announced that funds ...
Thousands of students in Hong Kong sat for their final secondary school exams on Friday despite Covid-19 concerns. The students wore masks as they took their exams this Friday. The Diploma of Secondary Education examination ...
Kenya is spreading awareness about Covid-19 safety measures through graffiti art. Six pieces of graffiti were made in Kenya and all served the purpose of public health messages. They include messages like “wash your hands,” ...
In a press conference of Thursday, President Trump floated the idea of injecting disinfectants into the body as a means to ward off Covid-19. Trump commented, “And is there a way we can do something ...
The graffiti picture called “Girl with a Pierced Eardrum” has been updated with a surgical face mask, moving with the times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Banksy, an anonymous England-based street artist, created the mural of ...
We’re constantly being told to stay informed; it is the key to survival. But what if you have an influx of information – and no way to filter it? To address exactly this kind of ...
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews have taken to internet usage, which they have traditionally shunned, amid the Covid-19 lockdown. The devout religious group has made an online presence as they study, video chat and shop from the ...
In a world hit by Covid-19, bathroom breaks are to be determined by traffic lights in keeping with the requirements of social distancing and other protective measures. How it works A yellow and green traffic ...
The Finnish energy company Fortum is testing hands-free door handles in supermarkets to prevent the spread of Covid-19. “The handle with care” – Fortum The handles will be tested in Helsinki in supermarkets. Fortum’s ...
Two pet cats in New York are the first felines in the United States to test positive for Covid-19. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that ...
Medical Detection Dogs, set up in 2008 to harness dogs’ sharp sense of smell to detect human diseases, started working on the project to sniff coronavirus cases late last months. In its training room in Milton ...
Germany has given the green light for human trials to start for the Covid-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been developed by the German biotech company BioNTech which is one of the many companies working on ...
The streaming service has received 15.8 million customers as people draw entertainment from their homes during quarantine. Netflix’s projections have more than doubled between the months of January and March since the pandemic broke out. ...
The UN has stated that the world will face famines of “biblical proportions” in a matter of months. The coronavirus pandemic has worsened the hunger crisis and has put 130 million people at risk of ...
Here are five myths about the novel coronavirus debunked by experts. The coronavirus was not manufactured by humans Infectious diseases can be caused by multiple factors. Viruses exist in our natural environment. The virus could ...
Bavaria has cancelled the 210 year old Oktoberfest in order to curb the spread of the pandemic. Bavaria’s leaders have cancelled the world’s biggest beer festival due to fears that it could become a “breeding ...
“It does make you wonder what the pandemic infection and death rate would look like with more women leaders,” said Abigail Post, an assistant professor of national security and political science at Anderson University in ...
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whilst standing two metres apart from each other. This week, Israel has begun to relax its lockdown but protesters still observed social distancing in light of ...
According to research, high levels of air pollution are one of the main reasons behind deaths from Covid-19. The study analysed the trend of coronavirus deaths in 66 countries including the ones which have been ...
According to the Bangladesh Coast Guard, nearly 400 Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boat two months ago have been rescued at sea. For now, the refugees including men, women and children, have been taken ...
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has refused to forcefully take a vaccine for the new coronavirus. “Personally I am opposed to vaccination and I wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine ...
Scientists in Belgium have discovered that antibodies in the blood of camels, llamas and alpacas might be useful in fighting the coronavirus. The Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology, where the study is taking place explained that ...
Many smartphone makers are now hoping that sales in China can cushion declines in overseas markets in coming months. Sources report Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shipped roughly 2.5 million iPhones in China in March, a slight ...
Millions of people around the world are wishing for something they took for granted before the coronavirus pandemic changed life as we know it. For Cheryl Norton, that something is a hug from her daughter. Norton’s daughter, ...
Several of the Thailand’s hospitals are sharing photos of newborns being outfitted in tiny face shields to protect them from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The photos, taken in the maternity ward, ...
Famous whistleblower Edward Snowden has a dire warning for everyone grappling with the coronavirus pandemic: don’t let authoritarians exploit the crisis to claim more power. Snowden told Vice that he sees the rise of emergency laws, increased surveillance, and other ...
Apple and Google announced Fridayan unprecedented collaboration to leverage smartphone technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus. The collaboration will open up their mobile operating systems to allow for the creation of advanced “contact-tracing” ...
The latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic, now puts the confirmed global total of cases at 1,502,618. On Tuesday 8th April, we passed 100 days ...
The following article has been contributed by Omer Azhar Bhatti. Omer is the co-founder of the Future of Pakistan Conference and a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. A day before Prime ...
Digital service provider Jazz has pledged PKR 1.2 billion support towards coronavirus relief, a statement from the company said on Wednesday. The support will include short to mid-term initiatives aimed to limit the negative impact ...
17-year-old high school student, Avi Schiffmann has created the world’s biggest coronavirus tracker. The website provides information on the constantly changing numbers of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries caused by the coronavirus across the world. Schiffmann is a ...
The ad on Own Shop, a dark web market, claims the vendor has been infected by coronavirus and is now selling their blood and saliva, which in theory could be immune to the virus and ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
The coronavirus pandemic has not only changed the way we socialise but also the way we work. At the forefront of the change is Silicon Valley based video conferencing app Zoom. Zoom launched in 2013 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One test detects signs of past infection and the other finds current viral load, also known as viral burden, which is the numerical expression of the quantity of virus in a given volume. Researchers have ...
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 ...
Netflix and YouTube will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic. Both companies said the measures will ...
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, ...
On Friday, 27th March, rumours that Prime Minister Imran Khan had tested positive for the novel coronavirus spread on social media and whatsapp groups. The news resulted in much chatter, as Boris Johnson, UK’s Prime ...
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 ...
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 country on Monday finally went into the lockdown mode in order to contain the spread of novel coronavirus as the army was called in to support the civil administration in the four provinces as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
On Monday, for the first time since the pandemic started, a human trial of a potential vaccine to COVID-19 was carried out in a medical centre in Seattle. The vaccine was developed by the National ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
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 ...
On Tuesday, Imran Khan addressed all of Pakistan on the Coronavirus pandemic in a televised address, his first address on COVID-19. As of Tuesday night, 237 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Pakistan with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alvis Kernel, a Canadian resident with roots in Hong Kong, was reportedly denied a seat in the uber due to his Asian ethnicity as mass hysteria kicks in
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 ...
In the last week, COVOID-19 has gotten new notoriety, forcing world leaders into isolation, resulting in cancellation of sport leagues, restricting world travel and causing the market to plunge. All these things are bad, terrible, ...
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 scale at which the coronavirus will spread in different countries and how big it will get is uncertain. 27,980 cases have been confirmed in Italy, which makes it the largest outbreak outside China. After ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“Forza Italia, We love you! PornHub has decided to donate its percentage revenue from the ModelHub platform from March to help Italy during the outbreak. To help you during these weeks at home, for 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 ...
The novel coronavirus is continuing its spread in Pakistan. Pakistan has reported a total of 21 cases. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has declared the virus a global pandemic. The most important recommendation during this ...
To contain the spread of coronavirus, India has suspended all the tourist visas till April 15, after the total tally of cases has reached 60 in the country. Its government has said that all the ...
Oscar-winner actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson have announced that they have tested positive for coronavirus, the first celebrities to go public with a diagnosis. The American actor and filmmaker posted a message on ...
The World Health Organisation has officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on Wednesday. WHO Director, General Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus, said the organisation was “deeply concerned” by the rapid spread of the viral disease ...
Five former/current political officials have died, and the man heading the iranian government’s response to the COVID-19 has contracted the virus himself. Know more A former Iranian lawmaker became the latest and fifth high-profile death ...
Gigit Baltistan reported its second coronavirus case on Wednesday, a spokesperson for GB government said. According to the spokesperson, the patient, a 14-year-old hails from Skardu is under treatment at City Hospital in Skardu. The ...
A Pakistani family living in Hong Kong has responded to coronavirus fears by distributing face masks and sanitary products among the local people to help them stay safe and healthy, reported al-Jazeera on Tuesday. The demand of ...
Pakistan has reported 18 confirmed coronavirus cases, out of which 15 belong to Karachi, and who have travelled to Iran or have migrated back from Iran or china. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has postponed ...
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim to offer expert advice on the novel coronavirus, including symptoms, prevention and how it spreads. This is misleading; experts and health agencies say there is not enough research ...
United Kingdom Health minister Nadine Dorries says she has tested positive for coronavirus. Currently, she’s self-isolating. The United Kingdom has reported 373 cases in total as yet.
Thousands of people around the world are illegally downloading the pandemic movie Contagion following the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film is about a fictional global disease that health officials struggle to contain and how there ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. Earnings of major global companies could fall 10% this year, Citigroup ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. The European Parliament considers calling off this week’s plenary session, two ...
Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have been killed by coronavirus as the killer virus sweeps the isolated regime, according to reports. The secretive state has not recorded a single case of coronavirus since it surfaced in ...
PM’s Special Assistant on Health Dr Zafar Mirza confirms that Pakistan has detected nine new cases of the coronavirus. He said that the new cases are contacts of an already confirmed case and have caught ...
Italy has extended its emergency coronavirus measures, which include travel restrictions and a ban on public gatherings, to the entire country. On Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered people to stay home and seek permission ...
Sindh’s fifth case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the metropolis, a spokesperson for the provincial health department said on Monday, as reported by Geo News. Who is the patient? The patient, a 53-year-old man, ...
Stock markets in Europe and the US are bracing for their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis after the trading week began with panic amid the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an ...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has ordered the lockdown of the country’s northern region of Lombardy and 14 provinces in an attempt to halt the spread of a novel coronavirus. The move, announced on Saturday, places ...
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday said he would self-quarantine after he had contact with a CPAC political conference attendee who tested positive for coronavirus – reporter Reuter’s. Cruz “briefly interacted” with the person at ...
Following the outbreak of coronavirus in China and reporting of a few cases in Pakistan, the demand for hand sanitisers has increased dramatically, which is feared to spark price hike as the supply of raw material ...
Pakistan’s first patient of the novel coronavirus has recovered, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab confirmed as the global number of individuals with COVID-19 passed 100,000. The Sindh health department spokesperson said the patient had been ...
The threat of coronavirus is growing globally and six cases have already been reported in Pakistan. To help people who feel like they might have the symptoms, Dawn reached out to health officials to understand the process through which one can be ...
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has placed a ban on employees from greeting each other with handshakes and hugs amid Coronavirus fears. ICT administration has issued several other precautionary measures for its employees that ...
Pakistan’s sixth case of novel coronavirus was reported in Karachi on Thursday. The patient was identified as a 69-year-old male residing in the city’s District East. Taking notice of the case, Sindh Chief Minister Murad ...
The Matric board issued announced that the exams would begin March 16. However, private schools in Sindh have a major problem with that as the schools had been closed due to coronavirus and are to ...
Twitter has announced that it will be “strongly encouraging” all of its employees around the world to work from home “if able,” as the company seeks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19. The ...
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Zafar Mirza addressed the rumors about the government hiding the actual number of confirmed cases of coronavirus. He spoke to the press and said, “The reports of the government ...
On Wednesday, the coronavirus death toll in the United States rose to 9. And so does rises the panic in the state of Seatle. The total number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in the ...
Amid fears of a looming pandemic, scientists in the US and across the globe are scrambling to develop vaccines – including in Israel, where one group of researchers says it could be ready in just ...
Pope Francis has been tested for coronavirus after he fell ill and was forced to cancel a religious retreat near Rome. Reports say he has tested negative. The pontiff had been due to go to ...
Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed its fifth case of the novel coronavirus in the country. According to National Institutes of Health (NIH) the patient is a 45-year-old woman from the northern mountainous region of Gilgit Baltistan, ...
With the coronavirus having spread to 47 countries with more than 80,000 reported cases worldwide, Paris Fashion Week (PFW) 2020 is still underway. Fashion brand, Marine Serre made its debut with a collection featuring designer ...
Pakistan has confirmed four cases so far but all of them had a travel history to Iran. Afghanistan has also reported coronavirus cases. And has not taken any strong precautionary measures. The Pakistani authorities sealed ...
A new coronavirus case has been reported in Karachi bringing the total number of reported patients to 3. The statement was issued on Saturday, the Sindh Health department said the case was confirmed at 5 ...
South Korea reported 813 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday in what the vice health minister called a “critical moment” in the country’s battle against the virus. The new figures bring South Korea’s infected total ...
Sindh Rangers on Saturday carried out a raid in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality in Karachi and recovered more than 70,000 surgical masks, reported Geo News. The raid came a day after the Supreme Court ordered the government to ...
Saudi Arabia on Friday barred citizens from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from entering two of Muslim’s holiest cities amid fears over the new coronavirus, the foreign ministry said. The decision to halt access ...
Hong Kong’s government announced it will give permanent residents 18 years and older a one-time payment of $1,284 as well as tax breaks for companies, as part of relief efforts to combat the economic havoc ...
China finds a breakthrough as they discharge 36,117 patients on friday. Criteria for deciding if a patient has recovered varies between provinces, but in general, Chinese hospitals require people to test negative twice in a ...
President Dr Arif Avi after consulting ulema said people suffering from flu should offer prayers at home, and avoid Jumma congregations for community’s wellbeing. Two patients were diagnosed with novel coronavirus in Pakistan, and a ...
Facebook has warned any coronavirus product to stop making false claims and using facebook as a shoulder to shoot the bullet. Facebook that it is banning ads that make false claims about products tied to ...
The person is a student of MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) who had recently flown back from China, where he was enrolled. This is one suspected case of coronavirus infection in Punjab, confirms ...
As of Monday morning, 16 March, 94 cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected in Pakistan, with 41 more cases emerging in Karachi. 166,980 cases have been reported worldwide with 6,492 deaths. On March ...
Pakistan decided to suspend all flight operations to Iran from midnight after the first two coronavirus cases were confirmed in the country a day earlier. Pakistan had closed borders with Iran following a spike in ...
China recently reported 29 more deaths from the hands of the widely and rapidly spreading coronavirus, raising the death toll to 2,774 according to the National Health Commission. The commission reported 433 new cases, with ...
At a White House briefing, Trump defended his administration’s handling of the crisis and said health experts were “ready, willing and able” to move quickly if the virus spreads. The rumors of coronavirus reaching the ...
The kingdom, which hosts the two holiest sites of Islam in Makkah and Madina, welcomes millions of Muslim visitors throughout the year with a peak for Haj. It introduced a new tourism visa last October ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said they ultimately expect the novel coronavirus to spread in the United States and are urging local governments, businesses, and schools to develop plans like canceling mass ...
Iran’s deputy health minister has tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, as it struggles to contain an outbreak that has killed 15 people. In a video, Iraj Harirchi said he was self-isolating and starting ...
Pakistan on Sunday closed its land border with Iran, while Afghanistan suspended travel to the neighbouring country as fears across the region continued to grow over a jump in new coronavirus infections. The latest Pakistan ...
The World Health Organization warned Friday that the window of opportunity to stem the new coronavirus outbreak was shrinking, amid concern over a surge in cases with no clear link to China. WHO chief Tedros ...
A Chinese diplomat on Thursday backed Pakistan’s decision not to evacuate Pakistani students from the province at the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, a day after parents confronted government ministers demanding their children be brought ...
Visibly perturbed and emotionally-charged, the parents of students stranded in China’s Wuhan city and Hubei province on Wednesday served a three-day ultimatumto the government. “If you fail to get our children repatriated within the next ...
Two people in Iran tested positive Wednesday for the deadly new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic’s first cases of the disease. Kianoush Jahanpour, a ministry spokesperson, said the cases were detected in ...
Chinese health officials Monday urged patients who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate blood so that plasma can be extracted to treat others who are critically ill. Drugmakers are racing to develop a vaccine ...
Four out of five Pakistani students that caught coronovirus in china have fully recovered. They were recently discharged from the hospital. Assistant on Prime Minister on health confirmed in a twitter post. He mentioned that ...
Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfikar Bukhari said Wednesday the government was setting up a quarantine centre at the Islamabad International Airport to effectively handle and screen the people coming from abroad. The ...
The UN health agency on Tuesday announced that “COVID-19” will be the official name of the deadly virus from China, saying the disease represented a “very grave threat” for the world but there was a “realistic ...
The number of deaths from China´s new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 902 on Monday after the hardest-hit province of Hubei reported 91 new fatalities. In its daily update, Hubei´s health commission also confirmed another 2,618 ...
An aspiring social media star who forced a plane to make an emergency landing after joking that he could have the deadly coronavirus says he was trying to get a viral video and has apologized ...
People have started making memes while some began calling coronavirus an ‘azaab’ (punishment) on the chinese for ripping Muslim women off of their abayas (head scarves) a long time ago. People failed to show humility ...
A Pakistani student who returned to Karachi from China was placed in isolation at a local hospital after possible symptoms of novel coronavirus. According to Express Tribune, Shahzaib Rahujo, reached his village, Nangerji, near Khairpur ...
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Dr Zafar Mirza said on Monday that Pakistan has acquired medical kits that perform specific diagnosis for the coronavirus, adding that till now, ...
Coronavirus has the world on edge. With the virus having spread to a dozen different countries and the World Health Organisation declaring a global coronavirus emergency, should Pakistani’s be worried about the mysterious virus hitting ...
A Pakistani student, who arrived in Karachi on Thursday from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China, has been admitted for monitoring to an isolation ward of a private hospital in the port city. A ...
Within the past 24 hours, the World Health Organisation declared a global coronavirus emergency as the death toll in China jumped up to 213. Since the outbreak of the novel strain of coronavirus, the world ...
Pakistan on Friday halted flights to and from China with immediate effect, a civil aviation official said, as the death toll from a coronavirus outbreak spreading in China mounted and the World Health Organisation called ...
India on Thursday reported its first case of the novel coronavirus in Kerala, the government said in a statement. The patient, a student of the Wuhan University, is stable and in isolation at a hospital, ...
As reported by The News, Pakistan’s top athletes will have to stay for a few more days in Nanjing, China due to flight issue. “They will have to stay for a few more days as ...
The “whole world needs to be on alert” to fight the coronavirus, the head of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme has said. The WHO will meet on Thursday to discuss whether the virus ...
Starbucks has closed half of its outlets in China to protect its staff and support government efforts to contain the coronavirus. The coffee shop chain warned that the rapidly expanding infection is likely to affect ...
British Airways has suspended all flights to and from mainland China as the Government finalises urgent plans to bring citizens back from the coronavirus-hit province of Hubei. The airline, which operates daily flights to Shanghai ...
Four Pakistani students in China have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza said on Wednesday. “They are doing well, getting the best care possible, ...
Japan and the US have airlifted hundreds of their citizens from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, as officials in China said the death toll from the disease had risen sharply overnight to 132, with nearly ...
A group of Pakistani students have demanded that the government make efforts to rescue them from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, according to a video uploaded on social media. According to a student from ...
Canada’s first case of the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 40 people was confirmed on Saturday. Not a lot of details are yet known but health officials said a man in his 50s ...
McDonald’s has “suspended business” in five cities in China, which are at the center of the coronavirus outbreak. A spokesperson for McDonald’s Asia said in a statement that all restaurant operations will be suspended in ...
The Wuhan coronavirus that has killed at least 26 people in China hit the western region of Xinjiang on Thursday. At 6 p.m. local time health authorities reported a 47-year-old man, named as Li, and a 52-year-old ...
A man suspected to have contracted the coronavirus has been admitted to the Nishtar Hospital in Multan, the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated in a press release issued on Saturday. According to Multan and ...
Eric Toner, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, less than three months earlier, had staged a simulation of a global pandemic involving a coronavirus. Toner’s simulation of a hypothetical deadly coronavirus pandemic suggested ...
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