According to the National Nutrition Survey jointly published by the government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), more than 40 per cent of Pakistani children under the age of five suffer long-term health problems because of severe malnutrition. Most of these malnourished children live in Pakistan’s rural areas.
Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic, killing 13 people, including two newborn babies.
Libra is a permissioned blockchain digital currency proposed by the American social media company Facebook, Inc. The currency and network do not yet exist, and only rudimentary experimental code has been released. The launch is planned to be in 2020.
Li Wenliang was a Chinese ophthalmologist who worked at Wuhan Central Hospital. On 30 December 2019, Wuhan CDC issued emergency warnings to local hospitals about a number of mysterious pneumonia cases discovered in the city in the previous week.
