COVID

Covid forces policymakers to reshape the way that they used to decipher, dichotomize and design development plans

Here is how you can identify the similarities and differences.

Here is a list of dos and don'ts to help you navigate the pandemic

Guidelines for citizens on how to prepare for home quarantine.

Govt warns Delta variant gaining ground, expects all to adhere to SOPs

SAPM on health says tourist spots to welcome only ‘vaccinated visitors’

Stocks battered on back of expectations about quarterly financial results, soaring virus cases

As number of infections increases in a country, the next wave has a higher starting point and bigger successive waves

Govts hope targeted lockdowns will act as circuit-breakers in arresting dramatic spikes after cases started rising

Pakistan’s Covid response has earned international recognition

The lethal microbe penetrated into the English cricket team camp, forcing the ECB to announce a whole new squad

NCOC directs strict implementation of SOPs;

Patients and students in emergency cases to be granted special permissions

Islamabad will extend all possible assistance to Kabul to cope with pandemic, says custom collector

Foreign travellers to get US-donated vaccine shots

If cases increase and people delay vaccinations, there would be no option left but to re-impose the restrictions

Pakistani currency strengthened 6.2% to stand at 157.54 at end of FY21

During the pandemic, people were restricted to their homes and forced to use online channels for work

Study says most likely date for virus's emergence Nov 17, 2019, and it probably already spread globally by Jan 2020

Patients in critical care also come down to 2,084

Hundreds of Rizieq's supporters gather outside the East Jakarta court

Premier encourages Microsoft to further expand its footprint in Pakistan

Authorities look to avoid further delays in an immunisation drive that has hit several roadblocks

Part of emergency orders federal government placed to overcome countrywide shortage of jabs

About 332,877 people getting vaccinated on daily basis, says NCOC chief Asad Umar

CONMEBOL said the 2021 tournament would be “the safest sporting event in the world” when it announced Brazil as host

Managing twin disasters in a highly-polarised polity

Committee directed to inquire into the incident within three days and report to the health department

Families of deceased cops await Covid compensation

Following concern about the rapid rise of infections of the Delta variant of the coronavirus

The megacity is home to thousands of rural-urban migrants, as well as migrants from other parts of the country

Addressing vaccine hesitancy

Doctored PCR reports are being used to avoid quarantine after arrival

Covid-19 fight: Pakistan emerges as a rockstar state

What’s eating Narendra Modi?

Restarting schools

The new rules announced as the UAE sees a daily cases rise over the past three weeks

With deliveries of the first 200m doses to begin in August 2021 as US aims to distribute to 92 lower-income countries

Viruses cannot travel on radio waves/mobile networks

Virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose

The recent spike causes a flurry of flight cancellation, 18 new local cases in the city

Among those who develop symptoms, most (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing hospital treatment.

On average it takes 5–6 days from when someone is infected with the virus for symptoms to show

The Indian variant arrives

NCOC chief says 7 million people vaccinated so far; 11.663 million have registered so far

Karachi University gets Covid vaccination centre

Medical experts say it is sweeping the world at an equally alarming rate

Premier Imran says growth rate of nearly 4% has baffled opposition

Three residences in DHA, one in Garden East sealed over Covid outbreak

French Nobel laureate did not say ‘vaccinated people will die within two years’