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 […]
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, […]
Demi Lovato’s anxiety and depression have “come back in waves” during lockdown. Demi Lovato is finding it hard to assimilate into quarantine life due to her reoccurring anxiety and depression. With her history of substance abuse not even a distant memory yet, the singer is doing her best to stay positive, slowly. The ‘OK Not […]
Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has urged the nation to take standard operating procedures (SOPs) for curbing the spread of the coronavirus seriously once again in the face of a rising positivity rate. “National positivity of Covid cases was 2.37 percent. This is the highest positivity rate in more than 50 days. The […]
A 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, New York. She joined a new and fast-growing local firearms club to learn how to shoot. Andreyah Garland, member of local Gun Club, opens a case with her Mossberg 590M 12 gauge shotgun as […]
Amid rising positivity rate in the country which has now crossed 2%, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has warned the authorities and the general public about the foreseeable second spike of coronavirus, which is likely to start from educational institutions as it happened in the US, India, and Iran. “Unfortunately, the government’s response so far […]
“People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise. Behavioural fatigue has no basis in science”. ‘Behavioural fatigue’ became a hot topic because it was part of the UK Government’s justification for delaying the introduction of stricter public health measures. They quickly reversed this position and we’re now in the “empty […]
The government on Friday announced that the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib Corridor has been reopened in the wake of an “overall improvement in the COVID-19 situation”. According to a notification issued by the ministry of religious affairs, the reopening will take effect immediately. Indian visitors are allowed to come daily from dawn to dusk as per […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is seeking to avoid a full national lockdown. To prevent unemployment soaring into the millions, Environment Secretary George Eustice said on Thursday. “I’ve not seen any projections of 4 million, but certainly we know that there are some 700,000 extra people who are already unemployed as a result of […]
The global death toll from COVID-19 has crossed one million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that number is probably an underestimate and the actual toll is likely to be much higher. Some 1,000,555 people across the world have now died from the virus, data from JHU showed […]
