Covid 19 coronavirus: Busted - Three myths about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
9 Mar, 2021 03:11 AM
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New Zealand has secured an extra 8.5 million does of Pfizer s Covid vaccine - enough for every New Zealander, the Government says.
New Zealand has secured an extra 8.5 million does of Pfizer s Covid vaccine - enough for every New Zealander, the Government says.
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 shot we re all most likely to receive this year is a product of the medical revolution that is mRNA vaccines. What does it do? And more importantly, what doesn t it do? Science reporter
Jamie Morton dispels three big worries.
It doesn t change our genes
National
March 8, 2021
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq on Saturday said though the prime minister had secured the vote of confidence from the National Assembly, he had largely lost the confidence of masses.
Addressing the party workers, he said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government multiplied the miseries of people in the first half of his tenure and the PM’s move to get the vote of confidence from the lower house was only a remedial attempt to put salve on the wounds inflicted on the PTI’s morale by the upset on the Islamabad Senate seat.
According to the law, he said, the prime minister did not require the practice. The government, he added, should adopt a serious attitude to address the basic problems of the country instead of indulging itself in unnecessary acts. He said the way the government coalition lost Senate election at Islamabad seat but the prime minister won the confidence of the treasury benches itself posed a serious questio
Siraj says Imran doesn’t enjoy confidence of people
National
March 7, 2021
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq on Saturday said though the prime minister had secured the vote of confidence from the National Assembly, he had largely lost the confidence of masses.
Addressing the party workers, he said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government multiplied the miseries of people in the first half of his tenure and the PM’s move to get the vote of confidence from the lower house was only a remedial attempt to put salve on the wounds inflicted on the PTI’s morale by the upset on the Islamabad Senate seat.
Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 1- Deborah and Anne Pead
7 Mar, 2021 06:58 PM
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The Brains Trust: Episode 1. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video / Mike Scott
She doesn t know her name or what day it is. Anne Pead has lost her mind.
Her daughter Deborah, an accomplished PR maven, says dementia has robbed her mother of her personality.
It began with Anne squirrelling away jars of honey, writing herself maps so she wouldn t get lost on the way home and withdrawing large amounts of money from her bank account.
Anne Pead, who suffers from advanced dementia, is flanked by her granddaughter Brittany Eb, left, and daughter Deborah Pead. Photo / Mike Scott
National
March 7, 2021
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh chapter president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said Imran Khan doesn’t have any moral authority to act anymore as prime minister of the country.
He stated this on Saturday while talking to media persons after chairing a meeting of the executive committee of the party’s Sindh chapter to review arrangements being made for the anti-government long march of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) that will be commencing in Karachi on March 26.
Khuhro said a new chapter had been added to the political history due to the PDM’s victory against the government of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the Senate polls held in the National Assembly. He said PM Khan had made an attempt to make the state institutions controversial by the giving the impression that these agencies did support the government. He said the PM Khan before seeking the vote of confidence from the National Assembly had warned the lawmakers of his party that they w