A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) is informed today that new cases due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 percent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the […]
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that all educational institutions, including schools, colleges and tuition centres, will close down from November 26. Earlier today, the country’s education ministers met to review Pakistan’s Covid-19 outbreak and to take a final decision on extended winter vacations for school students. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside Special […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned that the government may be compelled to enforce a “complete lockdown” across Pakistan is coronavirus cases continue to rise at the same rate, blaming Opposition for holding jalsas and endangering people’s lives as a result. Pakistan’s second COVID 19 spike data is of concern: Increase in Covid […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet members on Saturday lambasted the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), for moving ahead with tomorrow’s rally in Peshawar despite the threat of Covid-19. “The same PDM members who had wanted a strict lockdown and criticized me earlier [are] now playing reckless politics with people’s safety,” said the […]
A comprehensive Danish study has found that face masks provide no clear protection from Covid-19 infection to the wearer. The study of more than 6,000 Danes published by the Copenhagen-based hospital Rigshospitalet saw no significant protection against coronavirus transmission. Researchers expected to see a halving of the risk of transmission in cases where subjects were […]
;Member states of the Group of 20 (G20) meeting during this week’s virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia must call on the kingdom to release its jailed women’s rights activists, Amnesty International has said. In a statement released on Thursday, the United Kingdom-based rights group said activists who led campaigns for women’s rights in the […]
The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday observed visible contradictions in the government’s policies to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country. A single-bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah made the observation while hearing a petition challenging the government’s decision to ban indoor weddings. Firstly Justice Minallah said the current wave of infections […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the government was focusing its energies on the country’s industrialization and on increasing exports. Addressing a ceremony in Faisalabad during a one-day visit to the city. He said it was the government’s job to facilitate industrialization and the business community. “We are now working on how we can […]
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of electric car company Tesla has leapfrogged Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and has now become the third-richest person in the world! The tech mogul’s fortune swelled by more than $15bn (£11.3bn) in a single week after Tesla’s shares jumped 13% following the news of its selection to join the S&P […]
Pakistan on Tuesday reported 33 deaths due to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the data issued by the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC). The country’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 7,193 — with the last 193 deaths being reported in just eight days. The NCOC data shows Pakistan recorded 14,606 […]
