Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a new round of tight restrictions in a bid to stem a surge in coronavirus infections; extending curfews to weeknights and imposing a full lockdown during the weekend. After only reporting symptomatic cases for four months, Turkey last week resumed reporting all positive COVID-19 cases that saw logged […]
PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that she is not afraid of being arrested. As she has imprisoned twice before without committing any crime. She was speaking to journalists before leaving Lahore for Multan to attend the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally. Despite the PTI-led government’s efforts to stop public gatherings because of the […]
As the second wave of COVID-19 sends countries around the world back into lockdown, scientists worry what impact more isolation will have. More than half the world’s population was under some form of lockdown last April, and most have been subject to stay-at-home orders off and on since then. In the United States, more than […]
Doctors are studying the impact of Covid-19 on unborn babies in Singapore, where an infant delivered by an infected mother earlier this month had antibodies against the virus but did not carry the disease. The ongoing study among the city-state’s public hospitals adds to international efforts to better understand whether the infection or antibodies can […]
Pakistan has reported 45 deaths in the last 24 hours. By novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 392,356. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 7,942 on Saturday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC); 3,045 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the […]
These days, with a pandemic raging, this is what life can look like: Staring at your face on Zoom for hours instead of occasionally glimpsing it in the mirror. Living out the days in loungewear. Wearing minimal makeup because no one sees much of you. Considering an investment in home exercise equipment because gyms are […]
One more member of the Pakistan cricket team has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday, taking the tally of infections within the touring party to seven. Six of the 53 members of the group had tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon their arrival in New Zealand, […]
The positivity rate of coronavirus tests in Peshawar has exceeded 19 percent and is the highest in the country; the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was told on Friday. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa capital has a positivity rate of 19.65pc, the forum was told in a meeting today. Peshawar is followed by Karachi, where the […]
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday that he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. The news comes just a day before the engagement of Bilawal’s sister, Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, to a Dubai-based businessman and several days before the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) next rally in Multan scheduled for November 30. I have tested positive […]
CHRISTCHURCH: The Pakistan cricket team has been given a “final warning” by the New Zealand health authorities over “breaching isolation rules” after six cricketers tested positive for coronavirus. In a statement, carried by the local media, the ministry said that the team has been issued a final warning. Earlier today, New Zealand Cricket said that […]
