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The developing countries face some tough times as response to COVID-19 pandemic has exposed their inability to cope with the staggering cost of recovery from the economic crisis. International Lahor Organization‘s latest figures spent on recovery...

Pakistan says it has successfully manufactured inexpensive ventilators that would soon be supplied to the local market amid coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 200,000 people and claimed thousands of lives. Ventilators are expensive equipment...

Can transfusion of plasma from the body of a person who has recovered from COVID-19, be a magical cure for averting coronavirus infection? There is still very little empirical evidence to prove this proposition, one way...

The United States recorded its highest number of COVD-19 cases for a single day on Thursday since outbreak of the pandemic as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday the actual number of...

Editorial Since the outbreak of COVID-19 Pakistan has been in a state of deep troubles. The infectious disease has exacerbated the multiple economic challenges, and businesses, workers and daily wage earners are finding it hard to...

Pakistan will use dexamethasone to treat critical novel coronavirus patients after researchers in the United Kingdom announced that the inexpensive and widely available steroid cuts the risk of death. The World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed...

The number of COVID -19 cases in Pakistan may touch the alarming level of 1.2 million by the end of July, warned Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday. The number of...

The World Health Organisation  has recommended that Pakistan should impose an “intermittent lockdown” to curb the spread of Covid-19, noting that the South Asian country doesn’t meet any prerequisites for lifting restrictions that carried out on...

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody has resulted in massive protests against racial injustice in several major cities from California, Minnesota to Washington, DC. As tens of thousands of Americans have taken to...

With the cities and towns gradually opening, everyone needs to wear a mask at public places to keep the coronavirus away, especially when social distancing is not possible. But what kind of mask? There are extremely...