More than 85,000 new cases of the virus were reported across the country on Friday, shattering an earlier single-day record and stirring new fears about the months ahead. A testing site in The Villages, Fla., on July 16, when the United States set a record of 75,687 new coronavirus cases in a single day. That […]
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has found that Pakistan has completed action. It has successfully complied with 21 out of 27 points of action. They decided to keep the country on its ‘grey list’ until February 2021, the watchdog’s president said on Friday. FATF President Marcus Pleyer announced the decision at a virtual press […]
ISLAMABAD: In continuation with a series of escalating warnings, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has sounded the alarm over the average positivity ratio registering 40% higher over the last four days than what was being recorded earlier. During a morning session on Friday, officials from the NCOC — the apex body tasked with […]
The final presidential debate between the two rivals takes on a more civilized tone than the first meeting with 12 days to Election Day. After last month’s chaotic debate, United States President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, took the stage again on Thursday night. The two rivals sparred on coronavirus strategies, leadership […]
ISLAMABAD: Warning that Pakistan is fast approaching a point where there will be “no choice” left but to impose another lockdown, the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) said that there is an urgent and immediate need to ensure the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for coronavirus prevention. The regulatory body noted that there […]
Saudi Arabia opened Islam’s holiest Makkah’s Grand Mosque for prayers for the first time in seven months on Sunday. They expanded the Umrah pilgrimage to accommodate 15,000 worshippers as it eased coronavirus restrictions. Saudi citizens and residents of the kingdom would be able to perform prayers inside the Grand Mosque in the holy city of […]
Former US treasury secretary and renowned economist Lawrence ‘Larry’ Summers is of the opinion that had America handled the coronavirus pandemic as well as Pakistan, it could have saved in trillions of dollars. He made these comments while talking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday. “America’s failure on Covid-19 is almost unimaginable,” he said. “Heck, […]
Worldwide coronavirus cases surpass the 40 million milestone on Monday, according to a Reuters tally. Experts believe the true numbers of both cases and deaths are likely much higher. According to Reuters data, it took just 32 days to go from 30 million global cases to 40 , compared with the 38 days it took […]
LAHORE: At least 500 shops out of more than 1,000 shops housing laptops, mobiles phones, accessories worth millions of rupees were gutted in a huge fire erupted at Hafeez Centre, a commercial hub located in the center of the City, in the week hours of Sunday. Emergency teams rescued at least 25 persons in their […]
Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s Congress Party yet again criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying ‘even Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India’. He made these remarks in a tweet, accompanied by a graph of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) gross domestic product (GDP) projections for several countries […]
