After months of remote learning, students all over Pakistan return to their schools on February 1st, 2021. Schools are following all the SOPs. Schools are maintaining social distancing and checking the temperature of students. Complete sanitization is ensured before students enter classrooms. Hand sanitizers are available at multiple points inside the campuses as well. In […]
Western Australia has imposed a five-day lockdown in metropolitan Perth, the Peel Region, and the state’s South West amid fears a hotel quarantine worker who has tested positive to Covid-19 has contracted the highly contagious UK variant. The security guard, aged in his 20s, was working at Sheraton Four Points Hotel where four people in […]
A World Health Organization (WHO) team tracing the origins of COVID-19 on Sunday visited a food market in Wuhan, where the virus was initially detected. The team arrived at Huanan amid heavy security with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence surrounding the market; and left in a convoy after about one hour. […]
Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short an important ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported on Saturday, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. Vietnam, a country of some 98 million people that has so far been highly successful in combatting the virus; has recorded 180 new […]
Uk is banning direct passenger flights to and from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Friday, shutting down the world’s busiest international airline route from Dubai to London. Britain said it was adding the UAE, Burundi, and Rwanda to its coronavirus travel ban list; because of worries over the spread of a more contagious and […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James said that the state Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%, according to a report released Thursday. The count of deaths in state nursing homes has been a source of controversy for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state Health Department officials; who […]
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), after a detailed discussion with all stakeholders, decided that educational institutions shall resume all remaining classes — at the primary, middle and university level — on February 1. The forum decided that students in Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore and Peshawar would attend classes with 50% strength on alternate days. […]
Bangladesh has started its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the capital Dhaka, with plans to administer more than 30 million doses over the next few months. The first batch of people received the first shot of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at Dhaka’s Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday.“We have vaccinated five persons with this initiative today. I’ve talked […]
In the recent survey conducted on Wednesday, Gallup Pakistan revealed that the majority of the people in Pakistan refuse to get the Coronavirus Vaccine. According to the survey, 49% of the participants opted out of the vaccination, while only 39% population accepted it. As for the choice of vaccine, 31% of the participants said that […]
14 COVID-19 vaccination centers are set up across the province. Sindh government established these vaccination centers. Out of these 14 vaccination centers, nine are in Karachi. Two vaccination centers in each South, East, and Central District and one vaccination center in each Korangi, Malir, and West District. Other vaccination centers in Sukkur, Larkana, Hyderabad, Shaheed […]
