Coronavirus pandemic creating food insecurity: UN
Says people facing acute food shortage could double in numbers
Paris: The coronavirus pandemic could nearly double the number of people around the world facing acute hunger, the UN’s World Food Programme warned Tuesday. “The number of people facing acute food insecurity stands to rise to 265 million in 2020, up by 130 million from the 135 million in 2019, as a result of the […]
lobal coronavirus deaths top 170,000: AFP tally
GParis: The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 170,000 people globally, close to two thirds of them in hardest-hit Europe, according to an AFP tally Tuesday at 0935 GMT. In total, 170,226 people have died from the virus around the world, including 106,737 in Europe. With 42,364 deaths, the United States has the highest mortality […]
Imran Khan likely to be tested for COVID-19
Islamabad: Imran Khan may be tested for the coronavirus or asked to go into isolation after a well-known philanthropist was tested positive for the COVID-19, days after meeting the Pakistan prime minister, his doctor said on Tuesday. Faisal Edhi, the son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, met Khan […]
Pakistan removes thousands of names from terror watch list: Report
New York: Pakistan has quietly removed around 1,800 terrorists from its watch list, including that of the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, ahead of a new round of assessments by the global anti-money-laundering watchdog FATF, according to a US-based start-up that automates watchlist compliance. The so-called proscribed persons list, which […]
Hope for Chinese medicos: Will be injected with newly developed COVID19 vaccine
Govt says vaccine to be made available by year end
Beijing: China plans to inject Chinese medics with coronavirus vaccines by year-end to protect them to deal with any emergency situation, while 11 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country with no deaths due to the virus, health officials said. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Tuesday said that 11 new confirmed COVID-19 […]
US to suspend immigration temporarily, as death toll surges past 42 thousand
Washington: President Donald Trump has said that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into America, amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 40,000 people in the US, the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic. The number of people killed in the US due to COVID-19 has reached […]
Global coronavirus toll tops 165,000
Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 165,216 on Monday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. More than 2,403,410 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 537,700 are now […]
US deaths top 40,000: Johns Hopkins
Washington: The number of deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States topped 40,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. It showed the number of fatalities countrywide at 40,585, with almost half of them in New York. (AFP)
Fresh wave of violence in Afghanistan leaves many dead
Kunduz (Afghanistan): The Taliban have killed at least 23 Afghan troops and nine civilians, officials said Monday, as a fresh wave of violence grips Afghanistan despite a deal with the US and a worsening coronavirus crisis. Under the terms of the US-Taliban deal, the Afghan government and the insurgents were by now supposed to have […]
Imran advises people to exhibit ‘self-discipline’ to combat COVID-19
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday urged the people of Pakistan to show “self discipline” and refrain from going outside to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed nearly 170 and infected 8,516 people in the country. Prime Minister Khan’s remarks came days after he cautioned that Pakistan may see an […]