COVID-19 pandemic

YONHAP/APP Seoul: The government on Wednesday unveiled a comprehensive support package for young job seekers, including a new vocational training initiative led by major conglomerates. The plan, announced by Finance Minister Koo…

AFP/APP Washington: A deep freeze is gripping large swaths of the United States after a monster winter storm killed dozens of people from the Northeast to the Deep South, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, and sent air travel…

Wania Tahir Islamabad: A recent study by the US Pharmacopeia (USP) has reignited debate over the United States’ growing pharmaceutical vulnerability.  According to the report, nearly 700 American active pharmaceutical ingredients…

Xinhua Kigali: World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) President Julia Simpson suggested that governments should work to ease visa restrictions and accelerate the process of visa applications in a bid to further support international…

News Desk Islamabad: Among the 592,072 disability-insignia CNICs issued across the nation, a significant gender gap emerged, with 420,715 issued to males and a notably lower count of 171,357 issued to females, according to a study.…

News Desk Islamabad: The fluctuation in mercury has triggered an outbreak of the common cold, flu, cough and viral fever, especially among schoolchildren, said health expert. Family Physician Dr Umair Tahir stated that the number of…

Peshawar: A total of 3,797 COVID-19 tests are conducted in the country, of which 19 have proved positive during the past 24 hours. The National Institute of Health (NIH) updated on Wednesday that the highest number of cases are reported…

Ummay Farwa/Yousaf Cheema Lahore/Faisalabad: Dengue fever has now become endemic to Pakistan and transmission now occurs around the year with season peaks. Pakistan reported 78,554 confirmed dengue cases and claimed 149 lives from…

News Desk Islamabad: The Coalition for Elections and Democracy (CED) has called on the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take urgent action to ensure that the upcoming 2023 general elections and local government elections in the…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: People infected with Covid-19 had a roughly 25 per cent increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder in the four months following their infection, compared with those who had other types of respiratory tract…