Tag: #COVID_19
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Easypaisa Helps You Pay for Your COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate
Continuing its efforts to provide convenient digital payment options to customers, Easypaisa, the country’s leading digital payments App, has added a much-needed service to its portfolio. All Pakistanis eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations can now pay for their vaccination certificate through their Easypaisa wallet. Easypaisa is the first digital payments platform to introduce vaccination certificate payments,…
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Hopes for December vaccines get a boost despite ‘surge on surge’ warning
Washington, Nov 30 (AFP/APP):Hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 received a boost with US firm Moderna saying it was filing Monday for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe. After top US scientists warned Americans to brace for a “surge upon a surge”, Moderna…
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Moderna requests US, Europe vaccine approvals after full results
Washington, Nov 30 (AFP/APP):US firm Moderna said it would file requests for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe on Monday, after full results confirmed a high efficacy estimated at 94.1 percent. The highly-anticipated news comes as the US braces for a supercharged post-Thanksgiving coronavirus surge. More than 265,000 Americans…
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COVID-19: a great challenge for people particularly students
RAWALPINDI, Nov 29 (APP):The coronavirus (COVID-19) is causing global public health emergency and the great challenge for the contemporary world as the general public particularly the students are facing immense difficulties to continue their routine life. Battling second wave of coronavirus, the federal government has once again announced closure of educational institutions in a bid…
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Pakistan: 2,829 new COVID_19 cases reported
Baaghi TV: 2,829 new cases of the global corona virus have been reported in Pakistan and the total number of people affected has reached 395,185. According to the National Command and Operations Center, 43 deaths have been reported from Corona in the last 24 hours and the total number of deaths has reached 7,985. In…
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Vaccine giant to apply for pandemic licence in ‘two weeks’
Pune, India, Nov 28 (AFP/APP):The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume said Saturday it would apply for an emergency licence for a coronavirus vaccine within two weeks, and that confusion over the efficacy would not delay its distribution. Serum Institute of India chief executive Adar Ponnawala also confirmed that the Pune-based giant would be able…
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US online sales surge to near-record on ‘Black Friday’
New York, Nov 28 (AFP/APP):US online sales surged on the traditional “Black Friday” to set the country’s second-highest one-day mark ever as virus-wary Americans shunned in-person shopping, the Adobe software company reported Saturday. American consumers, staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic, spent $9 billion online on Friday, a 21.6 percent increase over the same day…
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60 arrested at London anti-lockdown protest
London, Nov 28 (AFP/APP):London police said Saturday that they arrested more than 60 people as scuffles broke out when they moved to disperse thousands of people demonstrating against Britain’s coronavirus restrictions. “These were for a number of different offences, including breaching coronavirus restrictions. We expect this number to rise,” Metropolitan Police said on their Twitter…
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No COVID-19 negative report required for MDCAT exam: PMC
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (APP):Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Saturday clarified that there is no need of having COVID-19 report to appear in the MDCAT examination to be held throughout the country on November 29 (Sunday). The commission contradicted the false information thread on social media speculating that students appearing for the National MDCAT need to…
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Coronavirus: Latest global developments
Paris, Nov 28 (AFP/APP):Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Europe deaths top 400,000 Coronavirus deaths have topped 400,000 in Europe, the world’s second worst-hit region. The pandemic has killed at least 1,444,426 people worldwide since last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturday.…