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Did the pandemic surveillance system fail in early detection of the Coronavirus in US and Pakistan? What are the problems in this system? What needs to be done to correct the problems?…
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Dr. John Nath Kapoor, Indian-American CEO of Insys Therapeutics, has been found guilty of conspiring to recklessly and illegally boost profits from the opioid painkiller Subsys, a fentanyl spray designed to be absorbed under the tongue, according to multiple media reports.…
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What is the global impact of COVID19 pandemic? How has it affected the United States? How is Prime Minister Imran Khan handling the coronavirus crisis in Pakistan? Are …
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Top two international medical journals, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Lancet, were recently forced to retract two papers on COVID-19 due to obvious fraud committed by the coauthor Sapan Desai, Chicago-based Indian-American surgeon and businessman, whose analytics company Surgisphere claimed to have stored clinical data from thousands of patients of hundreds of hospitals as part of…
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Is the killing of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis Police Officer symptomatic of a deeper problem in American society? Is the Trump phenomenon the result of ingrained racism in America? Is racism rooted in America's original sin of slavery? Is it time to openly acknowledge and address it? Is it time for greater social change beyond the emancipation proclamation of 1860s and…
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China reported 57 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, the highest daily figure since April, as concerns grew about a resurgence of the disease.
The domestic outbreak in China had been brought largely under control…
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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, Dr Zafar Mirza on Wednesday has said that the suggestion of two-week off and two-week on lockdown by the World…
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The number of confirmed cases in the country has jumped to 113,702 on Wednesday after additional cases reported in Punjab, Islamabad and Azad Jammu and…
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Pakistan has so far had just over 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID19. About 5,000 are currently in hospitals, including 1,000 in critical condition and 278 on ventilators, according to the World Heath Organization representative in Pakistan. Over 32,000 have recovered and 2,000 have died. Data from multiple countries shows that only a few of those who go on the ventilators survive. It takes highly skilled pulmonologists to insert the ventilator, a skill that is not widely available.…
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Sindh education department on Saturday has introduced online education for kindergarten (KG) to grade five students by launching a mobile education application in the province due to ongoing coronavirus…
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The deadly COVID-19 claimed 398,256 lives so far and infected 6,851,513 people worldwide while 3,351,323 patients have recovered.
The declared cases have been registered in 213 countries and territories since the first…
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Antibodies testing of 7,000 adults in Karachi reveals that as many as 15% of them have already been exposed to COVID19 without experiencing symptoms, according to a study by Dr. Wajiha Javed, an epidemiologist and head of public health and research at Getz Pharma in Pakistan. This data raises the possibility that millions of Pakistanis may have already been exposed to coronavirus. It takes at least 40% of the…
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سندھ میں کورونا وائرس کے 31 ہزار 86 مریض ہیں اور50 سال سے زائد عمر کے افراد سب سے زیادہ متاثر ہوئے ہیں۔
صوبائی محکمہ صحت کی رپورٹ کے مطابق کورونا وائرس کے سبب جاں بحق ہونے والوں میں سب سے زیادہ تعداد50 سال سے زائد عمر والے افراد کی ہے۔…
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Hackers linked to Russian intelligence have stolen Indian military data from cyber spies believed to be working on behalf of the Pakistani state, according to an assessment by Microsoft researchers. All those involved are part of what are known as "advanced persistent threat" (APT) organizations in their respective countries. TechTarget defines "Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)…
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The recently concluded IDEAS 2024, Pakistan's Biennial International Arms Expo in Karachi, featured the latest products offered by Pakistan's defense industry. These new products reflect new capabilities required by the Pakistani military for modern war-fighting to deter external enemies. The event hosted 550 exhibitors, including 340 international defense companies, as well as 350 civilian and military officials from 55 countries.
Pakistani defense manufacturers…
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