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WHO experts to arrive in Wuhan for delayed virus probe

WHO team will leave from Singapore and fly straight to Wuhan, the central city where the first cluster of cases was detected in December 2019.

Published 12 Jan, 2021 05:12pm

World

EU gets vaccine boost as WHO dampens hope of herd immunity

The EU's medicines agency said a decision would still not come before January 29, even though the drug is already being used in countries including Britain.

Published 12 Jan, 2021 04:36pm

World

China says WHO coronavirus experts to visit from Thursday

The WHO team ‘will conduct joint research cooperation on the origins of Covid-19 with Chinese scientists’.

Published 11 Jan, 2021 05:00pm

World

China says WHO Wuhan visit preparations ongoing

The WHO previously said China had granted permission for a visit by a 10-person team.

Published 09 Jan, 2021 06:51pm

Pakistan

Anti-polio campaign to begin in Peshawar from 11th

PESHAWAR: “The seven-day National Polio Immunisation Campaign is set to be launched in Peshawar from January 11, ...

Published 09 Jan, 2021 02:47am

World

WHO urges countries to stop making bilateral vaccine deals

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asked countries that have booked excess vaccine doses to "donate and release them to Covax immediately.

Published 09 Jan, 2021 12:54am

World

'Alarming' virus variants need bolder response: WHO

Europe has been hard hit by the Covid pandemic, with more than 27.6 million cases and 603,000 deaths.

Published 07 Jan, 2021 08:59pm

World

Asian nations toughen virus curbs as Europe fights new strain

The global outbreak shows no signs of abating, with more than 1.8 million people known to have died worldwide from 86 million confirmed cases.

Published 07 Jan, 2021 08:54pm

World

WHO calls for intensified measures over 'alarming' virus variant

According to the organisation's estimates, the new strain could replace others across the region.

Published 07 Jan, 2021 05:54pm

World

Impasse over WHO virus mission 'not just a visa issue': China

The sensitive mission has been beset by delays and politics, with fears of a whitewash by Beijing.

Published 06 Jan, 2021 05:31pm

World

WHO virus mission blunted as China refuses team entry

China is determined to control the origin story of the virus, which has killed more than 1.8 million people around the world and laid waste to global economies.

Published 06 Jan, 2021 05:17pm

World

China blocks entry of WHO mission to investigate coronavirus origins

A 10-strong team was due to arrive in China this week after months of painstaking negotiations.
Beijing is determined to control the origin story of the virus, which has killed more than 1.8 million people so far and laid waste to global economies.

Updated 06 Jan, 2021 02:32pm

World

WHO's Tedros ‘very disappointed’ China hasn't granted entry to coronavirus experts

Mike Ryan, the WHO's emergencies chief, said the Geneva-based agency had impressed on Chinese officials the critical nature of the mission.

Published 06 Jan, 2021 12:24am

World

WHO experts to wade into tricky territory in hunt for virus' origins

Covid-19 was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, before seeping beyond China's borders to wreak havoc.

Published 05 Jan, 2021 05:39pm

Pakistan

LHC bans invasive test for rape victims

The court asked authorities to take necessary steps to ensure that the test is not conducted as part of legal or medical examinations of the victims of rape and sexual abuse.
"In the detailed judgement by Justice Ayesha Malik, it has been held that the practice of virginity testing is unscientific and has no forensic value in cases of sexual violence, " say petitioners.

Published 04 Jan, 2021 09:07pm

World

WHO, marking year since COVID-19 began, urges fair vaccine distribution to all

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, appealed for $4 billion to buy COVID-19 vaccines for distribution in lower and middle-income countries.
Vaccines offer great hope to turn the tide of the pandemic. But to protect the world, we must ensure that all people at risk everywhere - not just in countries who can afford vaccines - are immunised.

Updated 30 Dec, 2020 06:36pm

World

South Africa imposes new virus curbs as WHO warns of worse pandemics

Ramaphosa said data showed "excessive alcohol consumption" leads to an increase in trauma cases reported at hospitals.

Published 29 Dec, 2020 06:38pm

World

Covid, pandemic and lockdown: how 2020 changed the world

"I think there are going to be some profound shifts in our society," warned Yale School of Public Health's Vermund.

Published 27 Dec, 2020 11:05am

World

WHO Wuhan probe not looking for Covid 'guilty' parties

The 10 scientists will also be accompanied by Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on food safety and zoonoses.

Published 23 Dec, 2020 07:11pm

World

WHO Europe to convene members over new virus variant

According to the WHO there is currently "no evidence to indicate any change in disease severity."

Published 22 Dec, 2020 06:17pm

World

Coronavirus toll at 1100 GMT Monday

On Sunday, 8,066 new deaths and 539,656 new cases were recorded worldwide.

Published 21 Dec, 2020 05:33pm

World

WHO Europe urges stronger action to contain new virus strain

It said it had "no evidence to indicate any change in disease severity, but this is also under investigation."

Published 20 Dec, 2020 07:51pm

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WHO says its coronavirus vaccine programme has secured 2 billion doses

The huge vaccine reservoir means that COVAX, a 190-country international programme that seeks to ensure all countries have equal access to coronavirus vaccines, can plan to start delivering the shots in the first quarter of 2021.

Published 19 Dec, 2020 04:28pm

World

WHO investigators heading to China in early January to probe virus

Mike Ryan, WHO's top emergency expert, said international experts would go to the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
We still don't have a take-off date because we are working on the logistics around visas and flights. We do expect the team to be going there in the first week of January. There will be quarantine arrangements.

Published 19 Dec, 2020 12:19am

World

Covid-19 vaccine delivery to poor countries to start in early 2021: WHO

Announcing the agency had secured nearly two billion doses of vaccine candidates, the WHO said in a statement that this would "enable all participating economies to have access to doses in the first half of 2021, with first deliveries anticipated to begin in the first quarter of 2021."

Updated 18 Dec, 2020 06:46pm

World

WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024

The World Health Organization’s COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around the world against the coronavirus.

Published 16 Dec, 2020 06:49pm

World

WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024

COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle income countries around the world against the coronavirus.
“The risk of a failure to establish a successful COVAX Facility is very high,” says an internal report to the board of Gavi.

Published 16 Dec, 2020 05:33pm

World

WHO warns of 'high risk' of virus resurgence in Europe in early 2021

"There is a high risk of further resurgence in the first weeks and months of 2021, and we will need to work together if we are to succeed in preventing it"

Published 16 Dec, 2020 05:06pm

World

WHO in talks with Pfizer, Moderna on Covid-19 vaccine access

It has already secured hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine candidates being developed by AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi-GSK.

Published 16 Dec, 2020 01:43am

World

New kinds of loans and bonds could fill $28 billion COVID funding gap: WHO

The WHO and GAVI vaccine alliance aim to provide poor and middle-income countries with diagnostic tests and vaccines through a fund known as the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator
Senior WHO adviser says financing is what stands between us and getting out of this pandemic as rapidly as possible

Published 15 Dec, 2020 05:01pm

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 3	278.23
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 3	278.03
USD to Japanese Yen / May 3	153.05
USD to Swiss Franc / May 3	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 3	1.25
Euro to USD / May 3	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 3	5127.79
India Sensex / May 3	73878.15
Tokyo Nikkei / May 3	38236.07
Nasdaq / May 3	16156.33
Hang Seng / May 3	18475.92
FTSE 100 / May 3	8213.49
Dow Jones / May 3	38675.68
Germany DAX 30 / May 3	18001.60

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 3	78.11
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 3	20535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 3	205418
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 3	2301.74
Cotton US¢/pound / May 3	78.06
Petrol/Litre / May 5	288.49

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Leaders

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

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

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 5 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 5 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 5 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 5 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 5 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 5 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 5 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 5 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 5 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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