UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that overcoming the coronavirus pandemic will require the most massive public health effort in history since it is an interconnected world where “none of us is safe until all of us are safe”. His remarks came as the world leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion euros (approximately […]
LONDON: While over 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical trials and a couple of those have entered human trial stage, leading health experts have raised alarming questions about what if the world never sees a Covid-19 vaccine, as in the case of HIV and even dengue where there is no vaccine even after years of […]
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett has said that scientists at the country’s main biological research institute have made a “significant breakthrough” in developing an antibody to the novel coronavirus, as the researchers wrapped up the development phase and moved to patent and mass produce the potential treatment. Bennett visited the labs of the Israel’s […]
MUMBAI: survey has found a vast majority of the citizens—86 per cent of those polled to be precise—are worried about losing their jobs and livelihoods due to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Also, a vast majority of those polled (84 per cent) not only believe that the pandemic is still in its early stages and also […]
Srinagar: The Industrial Estate in Rangreth area of Srinagar has been shut after an employee of cold storage tested positive for coronavirus, officials said. They said the divisional administration was informed and the necessary protocol is being followed. A resident of Budgam, the employee is working at a cold storage unit which belongs to a food […]
Washington: The number of coronavirus deaths in the US will jump to over 3,000 and new cases to about 200,000 per day by June 1, an internal draft report has said, even as more than two dozen American states announced to open up their economy amid the health crisis. The US is the worst-hit country […]
Beijing: China has reported 16 new coronavirus cases, including 15 asymptomatic ones, taking the total number of infections in the country to 82,881, health officials said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission (NHC) said that one confirmed imported case of a Chinese national returning from abroad was reported in Shanghai on Monday. With 15 new […]
Arshad Majid Rather Every year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) publishes global military spending figures, as well as those of international trade in conventional armaments. In 2018, the amount of global spending on weapons and military personnel was $1822 billion. In other words, 2.6% of the world’s nominal GDP. Over a period of […]
SYDNEY: Global coronavirus cases surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with deaths nearing a quarter of a million, although the rate of fatalities and new cases has slowed from peaks reached last month, a Reuters tally shows. North America and European countries accounted for most of the new cases reported in recent days, but numbers were […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s tally of the coronavirus cases crossed the 20,000-mark on Monday after 1,083 new infections were diagnosed, the health ministry said. In the last 24 hours, 1,083 new cases were reported, taking the total to 20,186 patients. There were 22 deaths during this period, upping the fatalities to 462. A total of 5,590 patients have […]