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 …
Read More »Is Commencement Of PMS Examination In The Middle Of The Pandemic A Right Thing?
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 …
Read More »Why COVID-19 Death Rate is Dangerously High in the U.S.A.?
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 …
Read More »COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are The Economic Impacts?
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 …
Read More »Global Human Development Could Decline This Year Amid Coronavirus Pandemic; UNDP
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 …
Read More »Mosque Attack In Afghanistan Kills Several Worshippers While Breaking Fast
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 …
Read More »Covid-19 And The Changing Financial World Order
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 …
Read More »What Older Adults and People with Prior Medical Conditions Need to do to Reduce the Risk of 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 …
Read More »Dogs to Sniff out the COVID-19 Patients to Help Fast Detection
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 …
Read More »Coronavirus Vaccine Would be Available by the End of 2020; Claims US President
“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 …
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