COVID fraud inflicts 11 billion pound hit to UK public finances, report shows
- 10-Dec-2025
MANCHESTER: Fraudulent claims for taxpayer funds during the COVID-19 pandemic cost Britain’s public finances 10.9 billion pounds ($14.5 billion), the government said on Tuesday, citing the findings of a new independent report. The report from the COVID Counter Fraud Commissioner showed many schemes, like Bounce Back Loans and Eat Out to Help Out, rolled out […]
NIH refutes reports of COVID rise in Pakistan
- 19-Jan-2025
ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has denied reports of a surge in COVID-19 cases in Pakistan, stating that the situation is under control, ARY News reported. In exclusive conversation with ARY News, Head of Center for Disease Control at NIH Dr. Mumtaz Khan, said that there is no truth to claims of a […]
US to offer free COVID tests
- 23-Aug-2024
US health officials said on Friday the government’s free COVID-19 test delivery programs would reopen in late September, in time for the holiday season, and that they had launched an educational campaign targeting those at risk of severe disease. The free testing program would be launched “as families start to move indoors this fall and […]
Four Films That Mirror the COVID Crisis
- 10-Aug-2024
While the world grappled with the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, cinema offered a unique lens through which to process and understand the collective experience. Here are four films that resonate particularly with the complexities of this global crisis: 1. Contagion (2011) Before it became a chillingly accurate prediction, Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion offered a […]
Harvey Weinstein moved to hospital after COVID, pneumonia diagnosis
- 26-Jul-2024
Jailed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was moved to a New York hospital on Thursday with multiple ailments including COVID, his representatives said in a statement. Watch ARY News live on live.arynews.tv New York City Correction Department records showed on Thursday that Weinstein, 72, was at the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward. Harvey Weinstein, convicted on rape charges […]
PM Shehbaz Sharif wishes President Biden prompt recovery from Covid
- 18-Jul-2024
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday extended good wishes to US President Joe Biden for his “swift and complete” recovery after he tested positive for COVID-19. “Wishing President Biden swift and complete recovery from COVID. Good wishes,” the prime minister wrote on his X timeline. President Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in a statement, said […]
Fact Check: Study DOES NOT say COVID vaccines fueled excess deaths
- 14-Jun-2024
A newly released study does not say COVID-19 vaccines may have fuelled excess deaths across the world, contrary to claims on social media. The journal which published the analysis has issued a statement, calling news from “various outlets” about the paper “misreporting” and emphasising that “the research does not support the claim that vaccines are […]
The FLiRT COVID variants: What are they?
- 24-May-2024
The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the mutations the variants share on the virus’ spike protein. One of them, called KP.2, has become […]
India looks beyond COVID with new vaccines for malaria, dengue
- 11-Mar-2024
The CEO of the world’s biggest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India, said the company has bolstered its manufacturing ahead of launches over the next few years of shots against diseases like malaria and dengue by repurposing facilities used to make COVID-19 immunizations. With COVID manufacturing scaled back as demand ebbs, the company is using […]
WHO concerned over ‘incredibly low’ COVID, flu vaccination rates
- 12-Jan-2024
Low vaccination rates against the latest versions of COVID-19 and influenza are putting pressure on healthcare systems this winter, leading public health officials told Reuters. In the United States, several European countries, and other parts of the world, there have been reports of rising hospitalizations linked to respiratory infections in recent weeks. Death rates have […]