The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK, with the first doses due to be given on Monday amid rising coronavirus cases. The UK has ordered 100 million doses – enough to vaccinate 50 million people. This will cover the entire population when combined with the full order of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, […]
Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas on Tuesday hinted that schools across the province may be closed for an extended period of time. Its said by the minister while he was addressing a ceremony on the teacher’s retirement system in Lahore. “I want to open schools,” he said. “However, we may have to go with the […]
Tehran: Iran has launched human trials of its coronavirus vaccine; health officials are optimistic about tackling the pandemic in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country. The start of the trials on Tuesday comes as Iran has managed to bring its COVID-19 fatalities down to a three-month low and as the country continues to face difficulties in […]
Pakistan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed cases of a new coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom earlier this year. According to the Sindh health department, 12 samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the Covid virus in the first […]
US President Donald Trump, on holiday in Florida, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans, after coming under pressure from legislators. The White House confirmed the outgoing president had signed the bill shortly after he tweeted: “Good news on Covid Relief Bill. Information to follow.” Trump, […]
China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy in 2028, five years earlier than previously estimated due to the contrasting recoveries of the two countries from the COVID-19 pandemic, a think-tank said. “For some time, an overarching theme of global economics has been the economic and soft power struggle between the […]
The EU is launching a co-ordinated vaccine rollout to fight Covid-19, in what the bloc’s top official says is a “touching moment of unity”. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had been delivered to all 27 member states. Some countries started administering the jabs on Saturday, saying they […]
Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland have confirmed cases of the more contagious Covid variant identified in the UK; the latest European countries to do so. The infections were linked to people who had come from the UK. France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany, as well as other places outside Europe; have also reported cases in […]
The All Pakistan Private School Federation president (APPSF) on Thursday threatened to launch a protest campaign if schools were not reopened in January as earlier decided by education ministers. Talking to Geo Pakistan, APPSF President Kashif Mirza said they reject the statement that schools may not be allowed to open considering the deteriorating situation of […]
The co-founder of BioNTech said Tuesday it was “highly likely” that its vaccine against the coronavirus works against the mutated strain detected in Britain, but it could also adapt the vaccine if necessary in six weeks. “Scientifically, it is highly likely that the immune response by this vaccine also can deal with the new virus […]
