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LAHORE: The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has issued a warning to private sector hospitals across the province against referring suspected and confirmed coronavirus patients to the state-run health facilities without adhering to the protocol. The PHC acted when some heads of the government teaching hospitals took up a matter with the commission that the private health establishments are not admitting/attending …

LAHORE: PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif has questioned the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government’s logic for asking people not to go for coronavirus test, saying it shows Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team are ill-prepared to fight the pandemic. “Asking the people not to go for coronavirus test shows the PTI government has no preparation for dealing with this outbreak. No sane …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Mi­­n­ister Imran Khan directed the ministry of health on Wednesday to split the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) into two wings — one for policy-making and the other for enforcement of policies. The prime minister gave the directives during a meeting in which he reviewed the drug regulator’s performance in the wake of increasing complaints about irregularities …

QUETTA: The Balochistan government has sent 1,652 people, who had returned from Iran, to their respective provinces after their stay in quarantine for 14 days at Taftan, officials of the provincial home department said on Wednesday. The immigration officials returned passports and other travel documents to them. “The convoys of pilgrims, students and other people left Taftan in 50 buses …

• Number of confirmed cases now over 245 • PM visits quarantine centre near D.G. Khan • Buzdar sets up Rs5bn fund • FM pins hopes on China’s anti-virus expertise ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: The inevitable finally happened on Wednesday when Pakistan joined the rapidly growing list of countries with coronavirus fatalities after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded the country’s first two deaths …

RAWALPINDI: A total of 145,073 children were vaccinated on the second day of the polio immunisation drive in the district and a new list of refusals has been prepared, a meeting chaired by the deputy commissioner was informed on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner Headquarters Dr Satish and senior district health authority and police officials. Rawalpindi …

LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq on Tuesday offered all the medical facilities and ambulance services of his party in different cities to the federal and provincial governments for assisting their efforts against coronavirus spread. Talking to party workers at the party headquarters, Mansoora, he announced support to federal and provincial governments in mitigating the threat of coronavirus outbreak. He …

Around 671 more returnees from Iran left their quarantine centre in Taftan for Sindh on Tuesday in a convoy of 18 buses while around 1,500 others are waiting to be sent to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces in the next few days. In the first wave of returnees, more than half were found to be infected with coronavirus. Provincial governments …

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Tuesday set up a special cell for coordination on coronavirus and introduced a number of social distancing measures. The newly-established cell, headed by Special Secretary (Admin) Moazzam Ahmed Khan, would liaise with diplomatic corps in the country as well as with Pakistani missions abroad, the FO said. The social distancing measures introduced by the FO …

• Restaurants, shopping malls, public parks, govt offices closed in province • Out-patient departments of hospitals also shut for 15 days • Inter-city bus services suspended from Friday ISLAMABAD: As the countrywide tally of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rose to 212 on Tuesday, the Sindh government made a drastic decision under which restaurants, shopping malls, food streets, public parks and government offices, …