Australia Sees Worst Recorded Flu Season This Year

MELBOURNE, Oct 22 (NNN-AAP) – Australia recorded its worst flu season on record, with more than 410,000 laboratory-confirmed cases reported so far this year, peak body data showed. The tally has surpassed last year’s record of 365,000 cases, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), Australia’s leading…

Pakistan Vaccinates Nearly 44 Million Children In Nationwide Polio Campaign

ISLAMABAD, Oct 21 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan has successfully concluded its fourth nationwide anti-polio campaign of 2025, vaccinating more than 43.9 million children under the age of five, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) said, yesterday. The immunisation drive was conducted from Oct 13 to 19, covering all provinces and regions…

Hamas Said Rafah Closure To Delay Handover Of Israeli Hostage Remains; Palestinian Death Toll: 68,116

GAZA, Oct 19 (NNN-WAFA) – Hamas said yesterday that, the Israeli regime’s continued closure of the Rafah border crossing, between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, will “delay recovery operations and the handover of bodies of Israeli hostages.” Inhumane Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to keep the crossing closed until…

Feature: Gaza’s Mothers, Doctors Keep Hope Alive Amid Conflict, Ruin

GAZA, Oct 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – At dawn, obstetrician-gynecologist, Somaya Shomer, walks briskly towards al-Awda field hospital, in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Balancing her duties as a physician and a mother of three, she helps women give birth amid war and devastation. “In my previous pregnancies, I enjoyed every…

Five Hospitalised Following Chemical Leaks At Post Offices In North-East Australia

SYDNEY, Oct 17 (NNN-AAP) – Five people have been hospitalised, after being exposed to an unidentified chemical, at two post offices, in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland, today. Emergency services were called to reports of fumes and an odour, at an Australia Post location, in the rural town of…

Toddler In Western Cambodia Becomes 16th Victim Of Bird Flu This Year

PHNOM PENH, Oct 17 (NNN-AKP) – A three-year-old girl from western Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province, has been confirmed for H5N1 human avian influenza, raising the number of cases to 16 so far, this year, the Ministry of Health said in a statement late yesterday. A laboratory result from the National…

Top Court Allows Sale, Bursting Of Green Firecrackers In Indian Capital For Diwali

NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (NNN-PTI) – India’s top court, yesterday, allowed the sale and bursting of green firecrackers, in the capital Delhi and its outskirts for Diwali (Hindu festival of lights) from Oct 18 to 21, officials said. The move was seen as a major relaxation for the people celebrating…

Cloud Seeding Operations To Begin In Indian Capital

NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (NNN-PTI) – India’s Delhi Environment Minister, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, said yesterday that, the government will begin cloud seeding operations in the next two to three days, depending upon favourable weather conditions. Sirsa said, all necessary permissions for the city’s cloud-seeding project have been obtained, and pilots…

India Enforces GRAP Stage-I Restrictions As Air Quality Deteriorates

NEW DELHI, Oct 15 (NNN-PTI) – Amid worsening air quality, in the Indian capital, Delhi, the federal government yesterday, announced the imposition of curbs, under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage-I, in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR, and adjoining areas committee…

WHO Issues Alert About Contaminated Indian Cough Syrups

NEW DELHI, Oct 15 (NNN-PTI) – The World Health Organisation (WHO), has issued an alert about three contaminated cough syrups identified in India, urging health authorities around the world, to report any detection of these medicines in their countries, to the global health body. According to the alert on Monday,…
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