GENEVA: The world is spending nowhere near enough to revive the fight against tuberculosis after the Covid-19 crisis wiped out years of progress, the WHO said Monday. Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on Thursday, the World Health Organization said global spending on TB diagnostics, treatments and prevention in 2020 was less than half of the global target … Read more
LAHORE: Despite considerable economic growth due to the easy market access in the post-pandemic scenario, e-commerce in Pakistan still remains far below its potential, market players and e-retailers said. The digital economy boomed during the Covid-19 crisis. As people embraced social distancing, they turned to online shopping more than ever before. The market share of … Read more
WASHINGTON, President Joe Biden will mark World AIDS Day on Wednesday with a speech laying out his vision for ending the epidemic in the United States by 2030. The White House said Biden will deliver a speech outlining the plan for “redoubling efforts to confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic.” The target is for a 75 percent … Read more
Owing to pandemic and warfare the United Nations foresees to assist an additional five million Afghans in 2021, as per the UN official. On Tuesday, Ramesh Rajasingham the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs uttered during the conference that “funding is urgently needed.” After coming back recently from Afghanistan, Rajasingham called out the extremely cold climate … Read more
Sindh Health Minister Azra Pechuho has warned that as hospitals in the province are running out of beds, soon coronavirus cases would emerge from every home. According to media reports, in her recent statements, Azra Pechuho said there had been a significant rise in the coronavirus cases in the country since the lockdown had been … Read more
On Tuesday, the Sindh government permitted more 82 factories to resume their operations after agreeing to fully follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by the government due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In a notification issued by the Sindh home department, 82 factories allowed to resume their operation to complete their export orders. “The factories … Read more
Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc’s Google have said that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into logging other phones they have been near. The rare collaboration between the two Silicon Valley companies, whose operating systems power 99 percent … Read more
Online game network, Nintendo faced outage as a result of an unspecified network problem as internet-based systems faced pressures from people at home amidst coronavirus outbreak. Gamers breathed a sigh of relief after the end of a network outage that affected Nintendo online games. “The issue with our network services has now fixed. Thank you … Read more
