HONG KONG, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Hong Kong’s Center for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed one additional case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Wednesday. In an update on the latest investigations on an imported case announced on Tuesday, the CHP said the Omicron case involved a 21-year-old female patient who arrived in Hong Kong … Read more
American singer Billie Eilish talks about her battle with the novel Corona Virus this year. She Contracted a bad case of coronavirus in August and states that she felt she would have not been alive if she hadn’t gotten herself vaccinated. Read more: Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora Contacted Corona Virus after Attending Karan Johar’s … Read more
LIVERPOOL: Premier League fans will be subject to vaccine passport checks to enter stadiums from Wednesday, but fears are rising over how long the English top-flight can continue in front of capacity crowds as the Omicron variant sweeps across Britain. Tottenham’s trip to Brighton and Manchester United’s visit to Brentford have been postponed due to … Read more
TOKYO: Japan’s major manufacturers remain cautious about the economy’s trajectory, with business sentiment flat for the quarter as concerns about the pandemic linger, a key survey showed on Monday. Among major non-manufacturers however, there was an improvement in confidence about the world’s third largest economy, offering glimmers of hope. The Bank of Japan’s Tankan business survey, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin has directed the relevant authorities to take effective policy measures to reduce unnecessary imports of luxury items. The adviser made these remarks, while presiding over a meeting to review the balance of trade at the Finance Division, a statement issued by the Finance Ministry said. The … Read more
MELBOURNE: A ban on unvaccinated Australians entering bars and restaurants nudged thousands to get jabbed — but it has also seen the rise of a thriving black market in fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates online. Twenty-four-year-old Molly — who asked to conceal her real name — is hitting the town. When Melbourne last month clambered out … Read more
LOS ANGELES: When vaccine mandates were announced in the United States, there were dire warnings they would cause mass layoffs or walkouts. But they didn’t. In fact, figures show they are working. There are pockets of resistance to rules requiring employees be protected against Covid-19, notably among police and firefighters, but they have nudged more … Read more
ABIDJAN: A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters. Since 2019, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have immunised more than 800,000 children under a pilot programme using the RTS,S vaccine. It is the first to show significant protection … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus pandemic claimed 46 more lives across the country in the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) announced on Saturday. Pakistan reported 1,664 new infections, while the total number of virus cases in the country exceeded 1,248,200. The NCOC, the country’s department leading the campaign against the Covid-19 pandemic, … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: Some 75 countries, including China, on Friday called for global solidarity for vaccine equity at the General Debate of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. The pandemic knows no borders. The only solution lies in global solidarity, unity and multilateral cooperation, said the countries in a joint statement. “We call on … Read more
NEW DELHI: New Delhi on Tuesday warned the UK that its citizens would face reciprocal measures over London’s new “discriminatory” Covid-19 rules requiring travelers from India to quarantine even if they are fully vaccinated. England and Scotland will ease pandemic restrictions from early October, but the list of countries with approved vaccines does not include … Read more
Bella Hadid, a model, has retaliated against trolls who have speculated that she is an anti-vaxxer. Social media fans speculated that the 24-year-old fashion diva missed the Met Gala in 2021 for similar reasons as rapper Nicki Minaj, who is currently under fire for refusing to get vaccinated and so missing the huge fashion event. … Read more
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new vaccine requirements, which may affect about 100 million Americans, as part of a new action plan to curb the surging Covid-19 cases driven by the highly contagious Delta variant. “While America is in much better shape than it was seven months ago when I took … Read more
CANBERRA: Thousands of individuals have signed a petition asking the Australian government to introduce or import Covid-19 vaccines made by China. The petition, launched last week on the website of the Parliament of Australia, has garnered nearly 8,000 signatures, as of Saturday morning. The campaign was initiated due to the serious Covid-19 epidemic situation in … Read more
PHNOM PENH: A flight carrying a new batch of 2 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia on Tuesday, giving another boost to the kingdom’s inoculation drive, a senior health official said. The jabs were purchased from the Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, said Ministry of Health (MoH) … Read more
WELLINGTON: New Zealand reported one Covid-19 vaccine-related death on Monday following a woman’s Pfizer vaccination and the resulting symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis. This is the first case in New Zealand where death in the days following vaccination has been linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Ministry of Health. The Covid-19 Vaccine … Read more
ABU DHABI: UAE Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) and the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA) have jointly announced that starting from August 30, applications for tourist visas will be open to people from all countries, provided that they are fully vaccinated with one of the WHO-approved Covid-19 vaccines, official news … Read more
Pakistan reported over 3,909 new coronavirus cases on Saturday as the fourth wave of coronavirus picked up the pace, data issued from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed. The NCOC statistics showed that 62,918 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours out of which 3,909 were confirmed to be positive. The positivity … Read more
The Ministry of National Health Services set the price of a single dosage of Covid-19 booster shot for anyone travelling overseas at Rs1,270 on Saturday. According to a ministry announcement, the price was set in accordance with a decision made by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) during a meeting on August 24. Booster … Read more
NEW DELHI: India’s drugs regulator has given its approval to Reliance Life Sciences Pvt Ltd to conduct phase I clinical trial for its recombinant protein-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate, a local media report said on Friday. “On Thursday the drug regulator approved Reliance Life Sciences’ application to conduct clinical trials of its recombinant protein-based Covid-19 vaccine … Read more
JERUSALEM: Israel‘s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday received the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the state’s Prime Minister’s Office said. Earlier on Friday, the Israeli health ministry lowered the eligibility age for the third dose of the vaccine from 50 to 40, following the recent sharp increase in Covid-19 morbidity in the country. … Read more
KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves fell $209 million due to the payment for import of Covid vaccine, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Thursday. The total foreign exchange reserves of the country decreased $24.644 billion by the week ended August 6, 2021, compared with $24.853 billion a week ago. The official reserves held … Read more
ABUJA: Nigeria recorded on Wednesday one death and 790 new cases of Covid-19, the highest daily figure recorded in the country in about six months, according to official data released on Thursday. This brings the total number of the caseload in Africa’s most populous country to 179,908 and the fatality toll to 2,195, according to … Read more
Pakistan International Airlines will run eight special flights from today to airlift 10 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines from China to Pakistan. PIA Country Manager for China Qadir Bux Sangi said that a couple of flights of the national flag carrier will leave Beijing Airport today with anti-Covid-19 vaccines procured from China. He said that … Read more
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday granted the emergency use approval to American pharma conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for its single-shot vaccine against Covid-19, officials said. The information was shared by India’s federal health minister Mansukh Mandaviya. “India expands its vaccine basket! Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine is given approval for Emergency Use in … Read more
WASHINGTON: People who are fully vaccinated can still transmit coronavirus, said US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director, Dr Rochelle Walensky on Thursday. “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,” Walensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “The vaccines work well for Delta in a way to prevent severe illness and death, but “what they can’t … Read more
KARACHI: Careem, the super app for the greater Middle East and Pakistan, in collaboration with the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration and the government of Sindh, arranged a Covid-19 vaccination camp for its colleagues, captains, their families and other residents of the workplace at its Karachi and Islamabad offices, a statement said on Friday. Zeeshan … Read more
PARIS: French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi on Tuesday unveiled a 3.2-billion-US dollar deal to acquire US biotech company Translate Bio in a move to accelerate development of next-generation mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) technology and catch up with its peers in the Covid-19 vaccine race. In a joint statement, Sanofi said it has entered into a definitive … Read more
