Health

ISLAMABAD: With only 20 per cent vaccine-eligible people fully vaccinated in Pakistan, mobility is going to become difficult for non-vaccinated people from Friday (today). According to data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday, 1,742 new cases of Covid-19 and 39 deaths caused by the disease were reported in a single day. The number of active …

RAWALPINDI: The twin cities saw a sharp increase in dengue cases in the last few days as 157 patients were admitted to hospitals on Wednesday. In the garrison city, 99 patients landed in three hospitals. Though the Holy Family Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital and Benazir Bhutto Hospital have established special dengue wards, Cantonment General Hospital failed to allocate beds and …

LAHORE: While the number of Covid cases is on the gradual decline, the dengue virus is spreading fast in Punjab. The Wednesday’s official figures showed the infectivity ratio of the coronavirus which was reported above 10 per cent during the last five days or so in Lahore, has dropped to 7.8pc during the last 24 hours. Similarly, the Covid positivity …

ISLAMABAD: Federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry has Wednesday announced that cinemas are now open in eight highly vaccinated Pakistan cities after they scored the highest marks in the Covid vaccination drive. راولپنڈی اسلام آباد سمیت آٹھ شہروں میں سینیما کھولنے کی اجازت دے دی گئ ہے، امید ہے لاہور اور کراچی کی انتظامیہ ویکسینیشن ڈرائیو کو بڑھائیں گے تاکہ اگلے …

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) has closed two labs in the fake corona vaccination certificates scandal. “These labs were involved in issuance of fake corona vaccination certificates,” a spokesperson of the IHRA said in a statement. “The services of Sharif and Khan labs will remain suspended till the next order of the authority,” spokesperson said. “The two labs have …

ISLAMABAD: National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) in a meeting on Wednesday decided to ease COVID-19 restrictions. The meeting was chaired by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar in Islamabad. Addressing the press conference flanked by SAPM on health Dr Faisal Sultan, NCOC chief Asad Umar said it has been decided to relax restrictions from October 1 (Friday) in …

Millions of people will begin converging on Dubai this week as the Covid-delayed Expo 2020, the world’s biggest event since the pandemic, finally unveils its gleaming pavilions in the desert. The Expo site in the dusty Dubai suburbs has remained strictly off-limits during its year-long postponement but the wraps will come off on Thursday at an opening ceremony attended by …

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar announced on Tuesday that the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) had decided to start inoculating children who are 12 years and older. “A special drive will be run for vaccination at schools to make it easier for children to be vaccinated,” he said. According to NCOC statistics, the country …

A small-scale clinical study of the combined use of the AstraZeneca and Sputnik Light vaccines against COVID-19 has shown strong antibody growth in a majority of the study’s participants, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Monday. The data was collected from 20 people who took part in a 100-person study in Azerbaijan that began in February. They first received …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has reported fresh 110 cases of dengue fever during the past 24 hours.  According to the Khyber Teaching Hospital, as many as 879 tests were conducted to detect dengue fever over the past 24 hours. Out of 879 tests, 110 remained positive, while 769 were negative. The hospital administration said that majority of the infected persons …