Saudi Arabia on Tuesday banned expatriates from traveling to the Kingdom from 20 countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Exceptions to the ban, which begins at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, are diplomats, and medical staff, and their families. Travel will be banned from the UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey, as well as the […]
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain is in the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Britain. Apparently, after contracting Covid-19, it emerged on Monday. Hussain, who is living in the UK in self-imposed exile since 1991; in an audio message released through his party’s social media channels on Saturday (Jan 30) stated […]
Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid speaks to the media in Lahore, on February 1st, 2021. She advised people to vaccinate at their “own risk”. Furthermore saying there were side effects related to the COVID-19 vaccine, which she also claimed caused “deaths in some countries.” Dr. Yasmin Rashid clarified to the media here in Lahore […]
WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AJMA). On Saturday, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) arranged a seminar. Scholars and physicians […]
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 […]
