Tag Archives: Covid-19

COVID-19 vaccination trial has just begun with the UK grandmother, Margaret Keenan, becoming the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab. Pfizer and its partner, the German company, BioNTech, announced preliminary results that suggested their vaccine was more than 90 percent effective but the news is …

As the world is still confronted with the shockwaves of coronavirus and no reliable treatment of the deadly infection is in place, our country has emerged as a success story in fighting the pandemic. Pakistan has reported 285,655 confirmed cases and 6,120 deaths so far. With our 20 million infections …

The COVID-19 remains an ongoing threat and resulted in the drastic ratio of death rate in the U.S.that has now passed 340 per million residents, just over 100 times the rate in China. This figure has been reported by Time Magazine in its latest report. The Economist report explains that the response …

COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on world economies with a number of cases surpassed 5.3 million worldwide. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy between $5.8tn and $8.8tn. ADB report finds that the economic losses in Asia and the Pacific could range from $1.7 trillion …

Global human development-which can be measured as a combination of the world’s education, health, and living standards — could decline this year for the first time since 1990 mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, warns the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner says that the world has …

Gunmen opened fire in a mosque in central Afghanistan on Tuesday at the time when worshippers were breaking their fast. The assailants have killed as many as eight worshippers, Reuters quoted officials as saying. “Unknown gunmen fired on people praying inside a mosque during iftar time,” said Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman …

History witnessed that changes in world politics have resonated either due to wars, famines or pandemics. A global order remains in a constant reshuffle. While China is seemingly structuring a new system through the provision of material support to various states, the US seems incapable of handling the prevailing Covid-19 …

The people with preexisting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease, may be severely affected by the new version of coronavirus. The older adults are also considered at high risk when it comes to the susceptibility of contracting COVID-19. One possible reason may be the immune system that grows …

Dogs have been trained to effectively sniff out several diseases from cancer, malaria, and Parkinson’s disease to blood sugar levels in diabetics, and now researchers are hoping to apply the practice to detect coronavirus. There’s a specific smell for many diseases the dogs that dogs are capable of recognizing. Researchers …

“We think we’ll have a vaccine by the end of this year and we’re pushing very hard,” said Donald Trump. All vaccines of COVID-19 are currently in developmental stages.  Some are in the early phases of clinical trials. But President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that a coronavirus vaccine would …