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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday approved the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use -- the...

Published 08 May, 2021 03:30am

World

WHO approves China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine

This afternoon, WHO gave emergency use listing to Sinopharm Beijing's Covid-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality.

Published 08 May, 2021 12:58am

World

Support grows for vaccine patent waiver as India sees record Covid deaths

WASHINGTON: International support grew Thursday for a US proposal to waive patents on much-needed coronavirus...

Updated 07 May, 2021 10:04am

World

WHO's Tedros hails 'historic' US support for vaccine patent waiver

Tedros clashed repeatedly with former US president Donald Trump, who began withdrawing his country from the WHO before President Joe Biden immediately rescinded the move upon taking office in January.

Published 06 May, 2021 10:38am

World

Pfizer sees Covid-19 as 'durable' revenue stream as profits rise

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he had not made a decision on whether to support a vaccine waiver, but that the United States was moving "as quickly as we can" to export doses.

Published 05 May, 2021 10:56am

Rich and poor: WHO slams ‘shocking’ vaccine imbalance

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday condemned the chasm between rich and poor nations in accessing...

Published 10 Apr, 2021 04:34am

Chinese scientist says Beijing did share Covid-19 data with investigators

BEIJING: A top Chinese medical expert said on Wednesday there was no factual basis to accusations that China did not...

Published 01 Apr, 2021 04:10am

World

US leads concern over WHO-backed Covid origins report

Trump had promoted a theory that the virus could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, which the WHO-backed experts dismissed in their report.

Published 31 Mar, 2021 10:30am

World

Global leaders push for pandemic preparedness treaty

GENEVA: World leaders pushed Tuesday for a new international treaty to prepare for the next global pandemic - and...

Published 31 Mar, 2021 05:42am

World

WHO chief urges deeper probe into Covid lab leak theory

The WHO chief voiced concern that the international expert team had "expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data" while in China.

Published 30 Mar, 2021 08:56pm

World

WHO experts say Covid probably came to humans from animals

Beijing's theory that the virus did not originate in China at all but was imported in frozen food was judged "possible" but very unlikely.

Published 30 Mar, 2021 09:38am

Covid probably came to humans from animals: WHO

GENEVA: Covid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert mission to...

Published 30 Mar, 2021 05:45am

World

WHO chief says all possible Covid origins 'need further study'

"WHO has received the full mission report over the weekend on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the team that visited Wuhan earlier this year," Tedros confirmed.

Published 29 Mar, 2021 07:46pm

Pakistan

COVAX programme: WHO chief assures Pakistan of vaccine supply

ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has assured Pakistan of supplying Covid-19 vaccine under the...

Published 25 Mar, 2021 05:08am

Opinion

As Covid rages, world risks losing TB gains

In the year since Covid-19 flipped the world on its head, diagnosis and treatment of another serious lung disease ...

Published 25 Mar, 2021 05:08am

Growing global vaccine gap ‘grotesque’: WHO

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Monday blasted the growing gap between the number of coronavirus vaccines...

Published 23 Mar, 2021 04:37am

World

COVID-19 vaccine makers should license technology to overcome ‘grotesque’ inequity: WHO

The Geneva-based body urged vigilance as case numbers rise in several regions, including Europe, driven partly by virus variants that transmit more easily.

Updated 23 Mar, 2021 05:11pm

World

WHO renews backing for AstraZeneca Covid jab

GENEVA: The World Health Organization gave strong backing to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab on Friday, urging ...

Published 20 Mar, 2021 04:39am

World

WHO approves J&J vaccine

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, after already...

Published 13 Mar, 2021 04:28am

World

EU eyes more vaccines as US lambasts Russian 'disinformation'

"It is very clear that Russia is up to its old tricks, and in doing so is potentially putting people at risk by spreading disinformation about vaccines that we know to be saving lives every day," a State Department spokesman said.

Updated 09 Mar, 2021 05:43pm

Opinion

Global vaccine justice — II

Moreover, vaccine inequality, whereby rich countries are significantly outpacing poorer countries in terms of ...

Published 06 Mar, 2021 05:01am

World

WHO scraps plan for interim report on Wuhan virus mission: WSJ

US State Department spokesman Ned Price called on China Thursday to share what it knows from the earliest days of the pandemic.

Published 05 Mar, 2021 09:57am

World

Nigeria takes delivery of millions of free Covax jabs

ABUJA: Nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday, making Africa’s most populous nation ...

Updated 03 Mar, 2021 09:37am

World

One in four people will have hearing problems by 2050: WHO

Among children, it said, hearing loss could be prevented in 60 percent of cases.

Published 02 Mar, 2021 11:16am

World

World won’t vanquish virus this year, says WHO

GENEVA: It is unrealistic to think that the world will be done with the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of the year, ...

Published 02 Mar, 2021 05:50am

Editorials

Vaccines first and foremost for the rich?

EDITORIAL: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General (DG) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a virtual press...

Published 25 Feb, 2021 04:58am

World

New Covid-19 cases down 16 percent last week: WHO

The interim distribution list issued on February 3 broke down the programme's initial 337.2 million doses -- of which all barring 1.2 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses, are from AstraZeneca. Both WHO-approved vaccines require two injected doses.

Published 17 Feb, 2021 11:13am

World

All hypotheses still open on Covid origins: WHO chief

GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that all hypotheses on the origins of the Covid-19...

Published 13 Feb, 2021 04:11am

World

WHO says all hypotheses still open in probe into virus origins

Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded. Having spoken with some members of the team.
Some of that work may lie outside the remit and scope of this mission. We have always said that this mission would not find all the answers.

Published 12 Feb, 2021 09:20pm

World

WHO, Pfizer strike Covax deal for 40m Covid vaccine doses

GENEVA: The WHO and pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer on Friday announced a deal for up to 40 million initial doses of ...

Published 23 Jan, 2021 03:56am

Forex
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Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 30	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 30	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / May 1	155.98
USD to Swiss Franc / May 1	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / May 1	1.25
Euro to USD / May 1	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 1	5018.39
India Sensex / May 1	74482.78
Tokyo Nikkei / May 1	38093.34
Nasdaq / May 1	15605.48
Hang Seng / May 1	17763.03
FTSE 100 / May 1	8121.24
Dow Jones / May 1	37903.29
Germany DAX 30 / May 1	17932.17

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 30	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 30	207390
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 1	79.18
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 1	2324.96
Cotton US¢/pound / May 1	76.51
Petrol/Litre / May 2	288.49

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 2 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 2 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 2 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 2 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 2 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 2 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 2 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 2 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 2 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 2 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 2 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 2 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 2 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 2 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 2 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 2 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 2 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 2 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 2 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 2 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 2 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 2 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 2 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 2 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 2 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 2 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 2 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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