China willing to help India fight resurgence of COVID-19: Wang Wenbin

BEIJING, :China has expressed willingness to provide medical supplies to India to fight a resurgence of COVID-19 at the request of Indian side, Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Monday. “China has been following closely the epidemic situation in India and expressed readiness […]

COVID-19: Pakistan extends air travel restrictions from 23 countries till April 30

ISLAMABAD, :Amid a spike in the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) Friday extended travel restrictions for international passengers arriving from 23 category-C countries till April 30. Pakistan has placed South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Comoros, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, […]

Which animals could have passed Covid-19 to humans?

Paris   –  First it was snakes and then the endangered pangolin before Asian ferret badgers were put in the dock. Scientists have been scrutinizing a Noah’s Ark of animals to find out whether — and how — the coronavirus was transmitted from bats to humans, […]

Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity ratio surges to 7.8pc

Amid a constant surge in coronavirus cases across the country, Pakistan’s positivity rate spiked up to 7.8% on Thursday, according to National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). Daily data issued by the NCOC says that over 61 people have succumbed to the virus during the […]

2,511 persons test positive for COVID-19 in 24 hours

Pakistan has reported 58 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 609,964. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 13,595 on Tuesday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation […]

Sindh’s COVID-19 positivity ratio increases in March

 After coronavirus restrictions were relaxed, the COVID-19 positivity ratio in Sindh has seen a sharp rise in the first week of March. The ratio measures how many people tested for coronavirus actually had the virus (tested positive) as a percentage of total tests conducted.  As per the […]

US Senate passes $1.9tr COVID-19 relief bill

The US Senate passed on Saturday President Joe Biden’s much-awaited $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, sending it back to House of Representatives for approval.  The upper chamber had a 50-49 vote, with one absentee and all Republicans voting against the relief package, which was passed through budget reconciliation […]

FAFEN warns of third wave of Covid-19 if SROs ignored

ISLAMABAD – Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) on Tuesday called upon the Parliament to provide leadership and guidance in ensuring transparency and public trust in the national COVID-19 response. According to FAFEN’s fourth governance monitoring report, with a third wave of COVID-19 feared, the elected representatives […]

Russian researchers discover predisposition to COVID-19

islamabad  –  HSE University researchers have become the first in the world to discover genetic predisposition to severe COVID-19. The results of the study were published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. T-cell immunity is one of the key mechanisms used by the human body […]

Gwyneth Paltrow reveals she had COVID-19 ‘early on’

ISLAMABAD-Gwyneth Paltrow said that she battled COVID-19 last year, and it left her with ‘long-term fatigue, body inflammation and brain fog.’’I had COVID-19 early on, and it left me with some long-tail fatigue and brain fog,’ the 48yearold actress said. ‘In January, I had some tests done […]