KARACHI: The Sindh government finds itself in a fix after its own task force on coronavirus has strongly recommended immediately taking all possible measures that had been taken during the first wave of the pandemic. However, after almost a week since the recommendations were made, the government is yet to move at the same pace with which it had acted …

A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Monday that hospitalisations due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 per cent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the country, 2,756 cases were …

PARIS: France will start easing coronavirus lockdown rules in coming weeks, carrying out the process in three stages so as to avoid a new flareup in the pandemic, the government said on Sunday. On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron will give a speech to the nation about the virus situation and may announce a partial relaxation of restrictions that have been …

The United States hopes t begin a sweeping program of Covid vaccinations in early December, the head of the government coronavirus vaccine effort said Sunday. “Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours of approval” by the US Food and Drug Administration, Moncef Slaoui told CNN. “So I expect maybe on Day Two …

After a scathing court setback in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump faces increased pressure from his fellow Republicans to drop his effort to overturn the U.S. presidential election and concede to Democrat Joe Biden. Since Biden was declared the winner two weeks ago, Trump has launched a barrage of lawsuits and mounted a pressure campaign to prevent states from certifying their …

President Donald Trump’s legal team said Saturday that his campaign has requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race after results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning the state. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Friday certified the state’s election results, which had Biden beating Trump by 12,670 votes out of about 5 million cast, or 0.25%. Republican …

The experts were Dr. James Cutrell, associate professor of internal medicine in the division of infectious diseases and geographic medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center; and Dr. Erin Carlson, associate clinical professor and director of graduate public health programs at the University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Constable feels “disrespected” after office moved to basement near “NEGROES” sign Ellis …

A Dallas homeless shelter where 15 people have tested positive for COVID-19, including a staff member who died Sunday, has kicked out residents who refused to wear masks as well as others who raised concerns with the media and county health officials about testing and transparency, sources say. Earlier this week, Dallas County’s public health director, Dr. Philip Huang, said …

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. The case was always a long shot to stop President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, but it was President Donald Trump’s best hope to affect the election results …

Saturday was quite warm for late November, with a high of 78 at DFW Airport. It even hit 80 in Arlington and Burleson. But the next weather change will arrive Sunday morning with a chance of spotty light rain showers as a cold front moves through North Texas. The front will bring cooler weather for Sunday and early next week …