Friday, April 30th, 2021
Kazakh Researchers Present Finished QazVac Vaccine
Nur-Sultan : Kazakhstan has joined the list of countries that have produced and made available their own COVID-19 vaccine. The country on Monday started administering its COVID-19 vaccine called QazVac. Health Minister Alexey Tsoy received his first dose of QazVac vaccine in a local outpatient clinic in the capital Nur-Sultan on Monday, Kazinform reported. After being inoculated in a live broadcast, Tsoy said he feels good, adding they have started vaccinating the public in various parts of the country, Anadolu Agency reported. The first 50,000 doses of the vaccine producedRead More
PTI rejects NA-249 by-election results
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday rejected NA-249 by-election unofficial and unconfirmed results. The polls were rigged with the alleged help of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Sindh police, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Karachi chapter leader MPA, Khurram Sher Zaman. ECP utterly failed to conduct transparent by-polls in Karachi and played a partial role during the process, the PTI leader accused. Zaman said Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz were not campaigning for the by-polls and the survey was showing PTI is going to win. But allRead More
Prices of petroleum products likely to go up by up to Rs6
ISLAMABAD : The government is likely to increase prices of petroleum products by up to Rs6. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has forwarded a summary to the Petroleum Division seeking upward revision of fuel prices for the next fifteen days starting May 1 (Saturday). Sources said the regulatory authority has recommended a Rs5.75 increase in per litre price of petrol while a Rs6 increase in that of diesel. The Ogra recommended the increase in the prices of petrol and diesel on the basis of current petroleum levy. TheRead More
131 more COVID deaths, 5,112 new cases reported in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered 131 more COVID deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing the nationwide tally of fatalities to 17,811. According to the latest figures issued by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), 5,112 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 for the same period, pushing the number of positive cases to 820,823. Pakistan has conducted 49,099 tests in the past 24 hours out of which 5,112 persons were tested positive for the disease. Overall 11,788,126 tests have been conducted so far to detect the deadly virus. The COVIDRead More