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China says tracking Covid cases now ‘impossible’ as infections soar
China last week loosened restrictions for mass testing and quarantine after nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus, prompting officially reported infections to fall quickly from the all-time highs recorded last month.…
UN chief warns ‘absolutely essential to avoid escalating’ Ukraine war
“The Secretary-General is very concerned by the reports of a missile exploding on Polish territory,” the UN chief said, according to his spokesman Farhan Haq. “It is absolutely essential to avoid escalating the war in Ukraine.”
A…
Seven killed as violence strikes two US universities
Police were hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of the nation’s capital Washington.
The campus in…
Pakistan kicks of anti-polio campaign on World Polio Day
This year’s theme is ‘Together, Let’s End Polio’.
On this day, a week-long anti-polio campaign has been launched today in 83 districts of four provinces of the country.
The children under five years…
Monkeypox retreating but threat remains, experts warn
Since monkeypox suddenly started spreading across the world in May, more than 73,000 cases and 29 deaths have been recorded in over 100 countries, the World Health Organization said this week.
Nearly 90% of the cases have been among men…
GSK halts Panadol production in Pakistan
In a letter to Prime Minister Office Principal Secretary Syed Tauqir Shah on Friday, the GSK chief executive officer declared force majeure and asked the federal government to rationalize the prices of the paracetamol range against the…
Climate change puts a billion children at ‘extremely high risk’
The KidsRights index, based on figures supplied by UN agencies, also said more than one-third of the world’s children, some 820 million, were currently exposed to heatwaves.
Water scarcity affected 920 million children worldwide, while…