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The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed regret over the US president’s decision to cut funding to the body at the time of the new coronavirus pandemic. “This is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

LAHORE: With six confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan, the Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Friday advised people to avoid shaking hands in order to stop spreading of coronavirus in the country, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad along with Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan …

KARACHI: Two new polio cases from Sindh were confirmed by the province’s emergency operation centre (EOC) for polio on Friday, taking the cases toll to 19 in 2019. An EOC Sindh spokesperson said the polio virus was found in Sukkur in a seven-year-old girl who had weakness in her right …

ISLAMABAD: A countrywide anti-polio campaign today (Monday) kicked-off under tight security measures, ARY News reported. During a five-day campaign in Punjab 19 million children under the age of five years will be administered anti-polio vaccine. In Sindh over 2.3 million children while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan over six point …

CAIRO: A “rare” bust of a statue of the pharaoh Ramses II has been discovered near Giza, south of Cairo, the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry announced Wednesday. The statue is the first rose granite bust of Ramses II found that includes the “ka” symbol, according to a statement from the ministry, …

LONDON: Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has been named the ‘UK’s Official Number 1 Artist of the Decade’ after a meteoric rise to music stardom, the Official Charts Company said on Wednesday. His global hit Shape of You – which spent 14 weeks as No. 1 in 2017 – was also named …

The UN agency, in a report issued a day after a climate summit began in Madrid, urged governments to meet ambitious targets to reduce heat-trapping carbon emissions saying it could save a million lives a year through lower air pollution alone. “Health is paying the price of the climate crisis. …

PESHAWAR: The provincial and federal governments are working to upgrade the health facilities in the newly merged tribal districts (NMTDs) to improve the delivery of healthcare services at their doorsteps. This was stated by K-P Health Minister Dr Hisham Inamullah Khan on Friday while inaugurating new equipment installed in the …

OKARA: A distressed calf was pulled out safely from a 30-feet well here in a village on the city’s outskirts after an hour of efforts, the rescue team said on Wednesday. Members of the rescue team, which fought tooth and nail for a strenuous hour, said they had received a …

LONDON: The World Health Organisation welcomed an “historic step” toward a polio-free world on Thursday as an expert panel certified that the second of three types of the crippling virus has been eradicated globally. The announcement by the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication means that only wild …