Schools in areas with high COVID positivity to be closed for one week: NCOC

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Image of students, wearing masks, sitting in a classeoom — AFP”Education institutions, premises, sections, specific classes with high positivity to be closed for ONE week,” NCOC says.Says COVID testing in education institutes was carried out in major Omicron hit cities to ascertain disease spread among students.A spokesperson for the Sindh Education Department says NCOC notification has…Continue Reading

Rare baby elephant twins born in Kenya

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Representational image — AFP/FileElephant has given birth to twins — one male and one female.New borns get accustomed to their savannah surroundings with their doting mother and an older sibling.Population of African savanna elephants reclassifies as “endangered” in the latest update to the IUCN’s “Red List” of threatened species.NAIROBI: An elephant in Kenya has given birth to…Continue Reading

Karachi court exonerates woman seven months after her death

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(Representational image) a judge can be seen tapping his gavel in a courtroom in this undated photo. — Twitter/FileIn what would appear at first glance a momentous day for Pakistan’s criminal justice system, typically fraught with cases where the innocent needlessly languish in prison, a Karachi court on January 10 exonerated a woman, Saima Farhan,…Continue Reading

105 nations, including Pakistan, to get cheaper Merck COVID pill

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Capsules of the investigational antiviral pill Molnupiravir. — AFP/FileThe 105 countries include some of the world’s most heavily populated nations like Pakistan, India.Generic drug manufacturers will make a more affordable version of Merck’s anti-COVID pill for 105 poor nations.”This is a critical step toward ensuring global access to an urgently needed COVID-19 treatment,” MPP official…Continue Reading

Newly discovered frog named after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (Left) and recently discovered a frog named after her (Right). — instagram.com/gretathunberg/ witter.com/konradmebert/FileNew species of frog gets named after Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg. Frog has been found in an isolated mountain range in the rainforests of Panama.Researchers explain the reason to connect the frog with Greta Thunberg.A new species of frog…Continue Reading

Meghan Markle, Harry likely to skip Prince Philip’s memorial over security: report

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Reports from the US are already suggesting that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle won’t come to Britain for memorial service for Prince Philip.Philip died at the age of 99 in April last year. Prince Harry returned to the UK to attend his grandfather’s funeral without his wife and children.The couple is likely to skip the…Continue Reading