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Veteran entertainer Omer Sharif has boarded an air ambulance and is finally on his way to the US for medical treatment. The air ambulance will take him to Washington DC via Germany. He is accompanied by his wife Zareen Omer and a six-member medical team. Earlier in the day, Sindh Government Spokesperson Murtaza Wahab had announced that Sharif was on his way to the airport. Doctors in Karachi declared him fit to travel despite initial concerns on Monday that he was too unwell. According to his wife, his blood pressure had dropped and the air ambulance had threatened to leave. The ambulance landed in Karachi Monday morning but Sharif was unable to board immediately as his doctors had advised against air travel. He underwent a series of tests before getting the green light from his medical team. The veteran's medical condition became a subject of national concern after he made a video appeal to Prime Minister Imran Khan to help him secure a visa to travel abroad for medical tre...

A US judge has ordered Facebook to release posts the social network removed over their role in inciting government-backed violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar. In his ruling on Wednesday, Washington DC district court Judge Zia Faruqui criticised the company for refusing to provide the records to countries pursuing a case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice. Facebook had resisted releasing the content on the grounds of US privacy law. But the judge ruled that the deleted posts would not be covered under the protections for users’ personal communications. “Locking away the requested content would be throwing away the opportunity to understand how disinformation begat genocide,” Faruqui wrote in his ruling, saying Facebook “taking up the mantle of privacy rights is rich with irony.” Facebook has been accused of being slow to respond to abusive posts portraying Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims in sub-human terms, helping to drum up support for a military crackdo...

Anti-polio drive has begun across the country with an aim to administer anti-polio and vitamin A drops to more than 40 million children up to the age of five years. All arrangement for the anti-polio campaign in the country and training of the polio workers are put in place. The polio workers have been asked to follow COVID-19-related SOPs during the campaign. Coordinator Anti-Polio Programme, Dr Shehzad Baig said that more than 40 million children are to be administered anti-polio drops and vitamin A drops. He urged the parents of the children to cooperate in the drive to save the future of their children. Dr Baig said Pakistan has not reported a single case of the crippling disease in the last seven months. The anti-polio drive is already underway in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) from September 17. Earlier this year in the month of July, Prime Minister Imran Khan had expressed the hope that Pakistan would become polio-free the next year. Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Khan had s...

A no holds barred investigation of each of the three approved Covid immunizations in the United States discovers the Moderna antibody is somewhat more compelling than Pfizer’s, in actuality, use in keeping individuals out of the medical clinic, and Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen immunization comes in third, yet gives 71% insurance. Pfizer’s immunization gave 88% assurance against hospitalization, and Moderna’s was 93% viable.  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drove a cross country investigation of immunization including in excess of 3,600 grown-ups hospitalized for Covid-19 among March and… from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/39lyqHK https://ift.tt/3tWY3bo admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/39lyqHK

TikTok has launched an Urdu-language “safety centre” in the country in order to ensure that videos shared through the platform do not overstep the guidelines spelled out by the government. The decision comes in the wake of complaints that some of the videos created by users are too explicit and go beyond the bounds of decency. The telecom regulator banned TikTok in the country a few months ago after receiving complaints that the platform gives excessive freedom to share indecent videos. The “safety centre” is a one-stop online source which equips the user with tools and resources to chop and edit products in line with the government’s directives. TikTok has always maintained that it provides a platform that stimulates the user’s creative faculties, bringing forth exciting products to share with the wider community. “It is important for the platform to provide a safe space where users can turn their ideas into reality and express themselves freely,” a statement by TikTok said. T...

US Food and Drug Administration scientists said on Wednesday that booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may not be needed, even though the third shot generates a higher immune response in recipients. The FDA staff members said in a document prepared for outside advisors that it is still unproven that the efficacy of Comirnaty – the COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer developed with Germany’s BioNTech SE – is declining. “Some observational studies have suggested declining efficacy of Comirnaty over time against symptomatic infection or against the Delta variant, while others have not,” they said in the document. Unmute “However, overall, data indicate that currently U.S.-licensed or authorized COVID-19 vaccines still afford protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death in the United States.” The FDA staff did say the booster dose met pre-specified conditions the regulator had set to show that the shot was generating an immune response. However, they said in the document that lic...

Facebook’s messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday launched a new feature to make it possible to search for businesses within its application for the first time. The test in São Paulo, Brazil, which allows WhatsApp users to find shops and services through a directory in the app, is the latest feature in Facebook’s drive to bolster e-commerce on its services. “This could be … the primary way that people start a commerce process in WhatsApp,” Matt Idema, Facebook’s vice president of business messaging, said in an interview this week. WhatsApp, unlike Facebook and Instagram, does not run ads in its app. Idema said previously businesses were promoting their WhatsApp numbers on packaging or websites or using Facebook ads to bring users into chats on the application. The messaging service has increasingly courted business users, with a specialized app for small firms and an API, or type of software interface, for larger businesses to connect their systems, which generates revenue. As ...

Pakistan has received another shipment of 3.5 million COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines from the United States, the US Embassy in Islamabad said Wednesday. This takes the total "number of COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the United States to Pakistan to 15.7 million," the US Embassy in Islamabad wrote on Twitter. Earlier, the US donated 6.6 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan. The US Embassy in Islamabad had announced that the tranche of the vaccines had been shipped to Pakistan, adding that it would help the country inoculate young and at-risk citizens. On August 26, the US had donated 3.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan under the COVAX programme. The donation came in addition to the 5.5 million Moderna vaccine doses donated by the US government to Pakistan in July. Read more: Pakistan's fourth COVID-19 wave weakens as country records decline in positivity rate, active cases What is the current status of coronavirus in Pakistan? Pakistan...

Teen Smoking: A Serious Problem in Pakistan Widespread tobacco use is a huge problem in Pakistan. According to the latest Aug 2021 figures of WHO , tobacco kills more than 160,000 Pakistanis every year. The greatest cause for concern is that tobacco use doesn't seem to be slowing down. In fact, it seems more and more people are getting addicted to this death stick every day –especially our youth. As noted by  emeds health analysts, despite recent government efforts, there is still a severe lack of awareness about the dangers of smoking. In addition, tobacco products are sold very cheaply and can be found even in the country's remotest corners. Finally, the constant population growth continues to provide newer clients to the tobacco industry. All these factors are indicative that we need to take a serious initiative to save our people. Population disparity in Pakistan Nowadays, Pakistan has more youngsters than it has ever had before. This population growth will likely c...

Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not needed for the general population, leading scientists including two departing senior US Food and Drug Administration officials and several from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in an article published in a medical journal on Monday. The scientists said more evidence was needed to justify boosters. That view disagrees with US government plans to begin offering another round of shots to many fully vaccinated Americans as soon as next week, contingent on approval from health regulators. As COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant of the virus rise, President Joe Biden's administration is concerned that infections among those already vaccinated are a sign that their protection is waning and has pushed boosters as a way to rebuild immunity. The WHO has argued that the vaccines are still needed for first doses around the globe. "Any decisions about the need for boosting or timing of boosting should be based on careful...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman retired Maj Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa on Monday said that social media giants would not withdraw from Pakistan because the country is among top 10 markets of the world and continues to grow at a fast pace. “We want to see this market grow for the benefit of all, but social media companies should also respect our laws,” the PTA chairman said while briefing the media on the performance of the telecom sector regulator. The media was informed that the PTA is finding it difficult to regulate content because all popular social media platforms are based outside Pakistan. Presentations were given by the heads of various PTA’s divisions. The PTA officials said that in response to their concerns about blasphemous, sectarian, immoral and defamatory content, the global social media platforms were reluctant to abide by the Pakistani law and norms of its society. Therefore, in majority of cases Pakistan’s complaints were not entertained, they added...

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This present summer's most-perused plans on Voraciously are an intriguing blend of occasional and season-less. From one perspective, you have dishes that feature the produce we love this season: tomatoes, corn, watermelon, cucumbers. On the other, you have those that can be made regardless of the month: biscuits, cake, flavored chicken. Obviously, our perusers are a balanced bundle.Here are the main 10 plans that most impacted them during summer.Watermelon and Cucumber Salad With Ginger, Lime and Mint. On the off chance that a plate of mixed greens can be viewed… from Health - SUCH TV https://ift.tt/3nlI2ue https://ift.tt/3nwrOi5 admin.web@suchtv.pk (Web Desk) https://ift.tt/3nlI2ue

NASA’s Perse­ve­rance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time, boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet. “It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for the mission, in a statement on Friday. “It’s a big deal that the water was there for a long time.” The six-wheeled robot collected its first sample, dubbed “Montdenier” on September 6, and its second, “Montagnac” from the same rock on September 8. Both samples, slightly wider than a pencil in diameter and about six centimetres long, are now stored in sealed tubes in the rover’s interior. A first attempt at collecting a sample in early August failed after the rock proved too crumbly to withstand Perseverance’s drill. The rover has been operating in a region known as the Jezero Crater, just north of the equator and home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago, when conditi...

On the off chance that your accomplice disclosed to you that you talk in your rest, they may be onto something. More than 66% of individuals will rest talk during their lifetime, as per an investigation distributed in Sleep Medicine. Talking in your rest is a parasomnia problem called somniloquy, and specialists aren't actually certain why it occurs, said Dr. Kannan Ramar, educator of medication at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "A few scenes of rest talking can most recent 30 seconds and happen just a single time in a blue moon while others report rest talking for longer lengths and all the more oftentimes inside a rest period," said Rebecca Robbins, rest researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Hereditary qualities or expanded liquor utilization may assume a part, she said. Another central point is inordinate pressure, Ramar added. "As nervousness can be a supporter of rest talking, so...

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged countries to avoid giving out extra coronavirus vaccines until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose. The WHO chief, speaking to journalists, said: "I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers." Speaking from WHO's headquarters in Geneva, Tedros urged wealthy countries and vaccine makers to prioritise getting the first jabs to health workers and vulnerable populations in poorer nations over boosters. "We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated," he said. The WHO called last month for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until the end of September to address the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations. But Tedros acknowledged Wednesda...

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More children went to the hospital and emergency room in states with lower vaccination rates, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children have largely been spared the worst of Covid-19 -- hospitalizations and deaths are rarer for children than for adults -- although recently children's hospitals have been filling up in Covid-19 hotspots around the country. The research published Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report found that hospitalizations and emergency room visits for kids with Covid-19 increased from June to August of this year. In the two week period in mid to late August, ER visits were 3.4 times higher in the states with the lowest vaccination rates and hospitalizations were 3.7 times higher than in states with the highest vaccination rates. The states with the lowest vaccination coverage were in the South. "Broad, community-wide vaccination of all eligible persons is a critical component of mitigati...

Pakistan's COVID-19 graph has been showing a declining trend as the country has mostly been recording less than 4,000 daily infections all of this week. The South Asian country registered 3,787 more coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours after 59,745 tests were taken, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,171,578, the National Command and Operation Centre's data showed Friday morning. The number of active coronavirus cases, too, have been declining for the last three days. The active cases fell to 90,076 Friday.  The positivity rate was recorded at 6.33%. With 57 more deaths, the death toll crossed the 26,000 mark and now stands at 26,035, according to the NCOC stats. The country’s daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases. Over 6,595 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the number of Pakistan's cumulative recoveries to 1,055,467. Pakistan is reporting 3,911 new infections on average each day, 67% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on Ju...

The UK's health minister said on Wednesday that the government will offer a third vaccine jab to half a million people with severely weakened immune systems. Health minister Sajid Javid said that a third dose will be offered by the state-run health service to those who "may have received less protection against the virus from two vaccine doses". Javid announced the rollout after the government advisory body the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended a third dose for those aged over 12 who have conditions such as leukaemia, advanced HIV or recent organ transplants. It said that the third dose by preference should be an mRNA vaccine -- so, not the AstraZeneca jab. The announcement comes as the UK government is considering whether to follow several other countries in issuing booster jabs to the population as a whole, potentially in early September alongside the flu jab. Javid said that the "third primary vaccine" jab was not the s...

Pakistan has reported 89 new coronavirus deaths during the last 24 hours, raising the total death tally to 25,978 nationwide on Thursday. According to the latest figures provided by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 61,651 coronavirus tests were conducted in the country, out of which 4,103 came back positive. The positivity ratio was recorded at 6.65% in the country as of today. The total tally of COVID-19 cases now stands at 1,167,791, with most cases reported in Punjab. The number of recoveries nationwide has reached 1,048,872 so far, while the number of active cases in the country stands at 92,941 as of today. According to the official portal, the total number of COVID-19 patients in Sindh has reached 433,931, in Punjab 396,326, in Balochistan 32,282, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 163,010, in Islamabad 99,910, in Azad Kashmir 32,380 and 9,952 in Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan is reporting 3,975 new infections on average each day, 68% of the peak — the highest daily avera...

Ireland fined Facebook's WhatsApp a record 225 million euro ($266m) on Thursday for privacy breaches after the EU privacy watchdog pressured the country to take a tougher line with a bigger penalty. WhatsApp said the fine was “entirely disproportionate” and that it would appeal. Still, the Irish fine is significantly less than the record $886.6m fine meted out to Amazon by the Luxembourg privacy agency in July. Ireland's Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), which is the lead data privacy regulator for Facebook within the European Union, said the issues related to whether WhatsApp conformed in 2018 with EU data rules about transparency. “This includes information provided to data subjects about the processing of information between WhatsApp and other Facebook companies,” the Irish regulator said in a statement. A WhatsApp spokesperson said in a statement that the issues in question related to policies in place in 2018. “WhatsApp is committed to providing a secure and private ...

David Barnard owes his entire livelihood to Apple. In 2008, he sold his car to start a company building apps for the fledgling iPhone. He's since found success making what he self-deprecatingly calls "boring" apps, including ones that check the weather or help drivers monitor their gas use. But his conflicting feelings sum up a growing debate -- playing out in courts and parliaments around the world -- over whether both Apple and Google are abusing their monopoly over the app market. In a world first, South Korean MPs passed a law Tuesday banning the two tech giants from forcing app developers to use their payment systems. Until now, those restrictions have allowed Apple to take a cut of up to 30 percent from payments made inside apps downloaded via the App Store, and Google to do the same through its Play Store. The tech giants, whose operating systems run on 99 percent of the world's smartphones, have argued this is fair recompense for providing the platforms...