KARACHI: Bootleg hand sanitisers have flooded the retail market as demand skyrockets and imports are unable to keep pace. Meanwhile, critical drugs needed for the fight against Covid-19 are running out. Pharmaceutical executives say the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has been dysfunctional for over a month now because 10 key posts of directors […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Tuesday announced a revenue loss of over Rs200 billion for March owing to the coronavirus-led slowdown in economic activity while warning of further losses in the coming months in case businesses fail to resume operations. Provisional figures showed the FBR collected Rs325bn in March against the projected […]
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ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Tuesday rejected a petition of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Faryal Talpur seeking to unfreeze her personal bank account, but restored two accounts of her daughters. Accountability Court-II Judge Azam Khan issued the order on Ms Talpur’s petition challenging the freezing of her account in connection with the fake bank […]
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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Wednesday that the government planned to provide kits of protective gear to journalists visiting quarantine centres and intensive care units (ICUs) to report on the Covid-19 pandemic. She made these remarks while addressing a video conference of provincial information ministers […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Coronavirus Relief Fund is accepting donations from today (Wednesday) to help those “who have been made destitute by the lockdown” imposed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Imran urged the nation to come forward and donate to the fund. “[The fund] will be used to take care […]
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A team of researchers in Pakistan, led by Dow University of Health Sciences Vice Chancellor Professor Mohammad Saeed Quraishy, think that the genetic make up of the novel coronavirus may alter in a locally transmitted case. The finding is not final as researchers are still studying the genome sequence of the virus and the research, […]
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Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Wednesday that preventive measures undertaken thus far by the country in its fight against Covid-19 will remain in place for two more weeks from April 1 to April 14. He made the announcement during a joint press conference with Special Assistant to the Prime […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed deep concern over continued restrictions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir despite so many confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths due to the disease. In a statement issued on Sunday, Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui regretted that thousands of Kashmiri youths, members of civil society, journalists and Kashmiri leaders were incarcerated […]
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WASHINGTON: A senior US scientist issued a cautious prediction on Sunday that the novel coronavirus could claim as many as 200,000 lives in the United States, as state and local officials described increasingly desperate shortages in hard-pressed hospitals. Dr Anthony Fauci, who leads research into infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told CNN that models […]
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