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Pakistan: ECC approves $150m grant for purchase of Covid-19 vaccine

Monitoring Desk The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has approved a grant of $150 million for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccine , initially...

World Diabetes Day: DM increases coronavirus risks, warns UN Chief

Monitoring Desk Secretary-General United Nations, Antonio Guterres has warned that people with diabetes are at “increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19”. In a...

Half of world’s 3.3 billion global workforce are at risk of...

Web Desk The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems...

COVID-19 lockdowns contribute little in improving climate conditions: UN Report

Monitoring Desk Climate change has not stopped for COVID19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase. Emissions are...

Six million Euros for conservation action to counter COVID-19 impacts:...

Monitoring Desk A total of six million Euros in emergency relief funding to address biodiversity conservation needs brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is being...

27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises: Report

Monitoring Desk UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have identified 27 countries that are on the frontline of impending COVID-19-driven...

COVID-19: FAO launches new Response and Recovery Programme

Monitoring Desk Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) has launched its new comprehensive COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, aimed at preventing a global food...

COVID-19: PM Imran Khan for combined global strategy to protect vulnerable...

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the international community to formulate a combined strategy to protect the most vulnerable segments of...

Pakistan starts producing ventilators, says minister Fawad Chaudhry

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan's Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said that the first batch of ventilators manufactured locally will be delivered to...

Future of 600 million South Asian children threatened by COVID-19: UNICEF

By Muhammad Luqman The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across Pakistan , India and other South Asian...

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