Tag: COVID-19

By Muhammad Luqman The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $300 million emergency assistance loan to strengthen Pakistan’s public health response to the COVID-19...

World Desk The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $350 million to scale up hunger-fighting and livelihoods-boosting activities in food crisis contexts where...

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan's government has in principle decided to make wearing face masks mandatory in public places as the lockdown in the South Asian...

تحریر: محمد لقمان کہتے ہیں کہ ایک شخص کو جنگ کے دوران تیر لگ گیا۔۔اس کی کمر سے خون ٹپکنے لگا۔ مگر وہ اس کی...

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan's leading pharma company Ferozsons Laboratories has announced that its subsidiary BF Biosciences Ltd (BFBL) has signed a non-exclusive license agreement with...

By Muhammad Luqman A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Health Services Academy of the National Command and Operation Center and the World...

Monitoring Desk Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct tobacco use and...

By Muhammad Luqman YouTube, the world’s biggest online video-sharing platform will give Pakistan $5 million in advertisement grants to spread awareness about the coronavirus, according...

Monitoring Desk Pakistan is expected to witness birth of five million babies in the nine months since the Covid-19 was declared a pandemic on March...

By Muhammad Luqman At a time when Pakistan's federal and provincial governments are busy in efforts to mitigate the effects of coronavirus outbreak, the desert...