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In a very short period of time after COVID-19 Pakistan has started the local manufacture of ventilators according to the standards of European Union. The first batch of ventilators named “PAKVENT-1” will be delivered to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the first week of July 2020. Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry in a video statement said that Pakistan has joined the ranks of those few countries which are producing their own ventilators. “The ventilator is a complicated machine and not a lot of countries in the…

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Bill Gates is warning that the US is still “very much in the thick of things” when it comes to COVID-19. And he believes that, given that many people refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing, that we are heading for another big round of infections in the fall. “Better treatment is reducing the deaths, but, particularly as you get into October and November, this thing will be back in big numbers, if we don’t restrain our behavior more than it looks like we are right at the moment,”…

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Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates used his to warn about a rough autumn ahead due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. “There’s good progress … but nothing that would fundamentally alter the fact that this fall in the United States could be quite bad, and that’s worse than I would have predicted a month ago,” he told moderator Chris Anderson during a live-streamed TED2020 Q&A. Although Gates didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name, he faulted…

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The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up, and he criticized governments that have failed to establish reliable contact tracing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Speaking at a briefing in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over.” “Although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up,” he said.…

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When Indian and Chinese troops started throwing rocks at each other in a fatal skirmish in the Galwan Valley earlier this month, the incident appeared to be yet another outbreak in hostilities over an ill-defined Himalayan border between the two countries. Tensions between China and India over the border go back decades and erupted into war in 1962. But observers say that this time the main driver of the conflict was not the line dividing the two players but wider strategic interests involving a third country – China’s “iron brother” Pakistan.…

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