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Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has revealed that 11 more suspected patients have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them were from the mandatory quarantine in Sukkar. While addressing a press conference in Karachi, Murad said that a total of 394 tests have been done in Sindh. Out of them, 27 people tested positive and are being treated. About Sukkar Quarantine Facility He said that the pilgrims returning from the Taftan border were again quarantined in Sukkar, where their samples were retaken. Out of those, 50 people tested positive for the virus on Sunday, while 11 more positive confirmations arrived as he spoke, taking the provincial tally to 88. More results are expected later tonight, he added. Speaking of the quarantine facility in Sukkar, CM Murad Ali Shah said that they had vacated the labor department’s flats. We have 1024 flats of the labor department with two rooms each, so we had the capacity of 2048 individuals. Exposing the Taftan Blunder Syed Murad Ali ..

Following the outbreak of Coronavirus in December last year, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) had allocated $12.5 million to three medical firms to expedite the development of the vaccine of COVID-19; Moderna, Inovio, and University of Queensland. Now, the researchers at Moderna are claiming that they have developed the COVID-19 vaccine at unprecedented speed and will soon begin clinical trials. ALSO READ Israel Says It Will Introduce Coronavirus Vaccine in 90 Days Moderna is a US-based biotechnology company that specializes in vaccine development by converting viral sequences into messenger RNA (mRNA). Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Moderna, Tal Zaks, says that the medical firm had already recruited volunteers for the clinical trials in the first week of March. I don’t think proving the vaccine in an animal model is on the critical path to getting this to a clinical trial. However, this is not the way how vaccine testing happens normally. Medical firms ar..

CDC Group, the UK’s publicly owned impact investor, has signed an $82 million debt deal in a wind power project in Pakistan that will reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. The deal will fund 150MW of wind farms located in the Jhimpir area of the Sindh province of Pakistan. The project involves three separate schemes of 50MW each – two developed by Liberty Mills and one by Indus Group. The projects are part of a program of 12 wind projects across Pakistan totaling 610 MW, increasing the renewable energy generation capacity of Pakistan by 50 percent and providing clean, affordable power to the country at an average tariff of $4.5c/kWh, in comparison to the existing average wind project tariff of $11.0c/kWh. The projects will avoid the equivalent to the average annual emissions of 130,000 people or 0.06 percent of the total of Pakistan’s annual domestic greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, they will add $19.1 million to the country’s GDP, support the creation of 6,260 indi..

According to Shanghai’s The Paper, Li Liang, a 36 years old resident of Wuhan, has died due to respiratory failure, just five days after being discharged from a quarantine facility. Li Liang was first admitted to a makeshift hospital made to treat mild and moderate cases of coronavirus on 12 February. After recovering from the affliction, the hospital staff discharged Li on completion of the mandatory 14-day isolation period. Li was also directed to remain in self-isolation for another two weeks as a precautionary measure. However, he started to feel unwell once again in a couple of days and complained about a dry mouth and gaseous stomach. As per Li’s spouse, Li fell ill on 2 March and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that day. Li Liang’s death certificate issued by Wuhan Health Commission states COVID-19 as the direct cause of the death and listed respiratory failure as the symptom which could have led to the man’s death. On one hand, the Chinese g..

A special meeting of Concept Clearance Committee / CDWP was convened to initiate precautionary measures and approve the concept paper of “Pakistan National Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for COVID-19” in Islamabad. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr. Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan. Secretary Planning Zafar Hasan and senior officials from EAD ministries also attended the meeting. The Project was presented by Chief Health and informed that the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination have come up with a proposal to enhance country capacity for preparedness and response to COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to establish functional coordination mechanism at the national and provincial levels for preparedness and response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Government of Pakistan is working to strengthen preparedness to identify, diagnose primary cases, effectively respond to minimize impact of COVID-19 through surveillance strengthening,..

Former speed star Shoaib Akhtar has named a Pakistani cricketer who, according to him, has the potential to become even a better batsman than Babar Azam. Akhtar heaped praised for the teenage sensation Haider Ali who was drafted for Peshawar Zalmi this year under the Emerging category. With his fearless approach, game sense, stroke-making abilities, Haider became the talk of the town just after his first few innings. Since then, he has become a regular feature in Zalmi’s star-studded squad. ALSO READ Haider Ali Becomes the Youngest Player to Score a Fifty in PSL This is the reason why the Rawalpindi Express was all praise for the young batsman in his YouTube vlog. Haider’s scintillating performance with the bat not only gained Akhtar’s attention but has every cricket guru talking. From Ramiz Raja to foreign Michael Slater, every PSL 2020 commentator, admired his hitting abilities and batting skills. Before the beginning of the league, Haider was chimed as a batsman at par with Ba..