KARACHI – Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said that services being provided to people under Qaumi Sehat Card Program would continue despite issues with the scheme, and claimed the Sindh government was also considering to launch its own health insurance scheme for the people ...

ISLAMABAD – Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday attended the meeting of National Task Force for Polio Eradication, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Gates arrived in Islamabad earlier today to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan, President Alvi and ...

A man from India’s Kerala state has called upon Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately stop his “wrong, shameful act” of putting his picture on Covid-19 vaccination cards. A court in Kerala is due to hear a petition next week from the unhappy citizen who does not want Prime ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department has prepared recommendations regarding newer restrictions on unvaccinated individuals. Reports in local media suggest that Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid presided over a meeting, in which officials mulled blocking of SIM ...

Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid has said that various incentives are being considered for vaccinators, while in a province with a population of 110 million, at least 50 per cent people must be vaccinated. Addressing a press conference at the Chief Minister's House, Punjab Health Minister ...

According to the National Command and Operation Centre’s link latest statistics, Pakistan had its lowest Covid-19 positivity rate in three months on Friday, at 3.58 percent. The country’s lowest COVID-19 positivity rate, 3.02 percent, was reported on February 28. According to the NCOC’s ...

Israeli ministers on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a new project to build 350 settler units in the Beit El settlement near the West Bank link city of Ramallah. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, Education Minister Yoav Gallant and Regional Cooperation ...

The aviation authorities in Afghanistan on Monday blamed Pakistan for unilaterally and arbitrarily cutting up to 80% flights of an Afghan airliner shuttling passengers between the two neighbors. According to the Afghanistan Aviation Authority, Islamabad has cut the Kam Air flights from Islamabad ...

Iran is set to roll out its first indigenously developed vaccine for coronavirus, COV-Iran Barakat, next week after the third and final clinical trial. Soberana-02 vaccine, jointly developed by Iran and Cuba, has also completed its third clinical trial and is ready for industrial line ...

HANOI: Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory including industrial zones and big ...