Health

PESHAWAR: The administration in the coronavirus-infected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stepped up efforts to enforce precautionary measures against Covid-19 as 22 more died of the virus on Monday. A report of health department said that the provincial tally of Covid-19 patients was 114,661 of whom 98,045 recovered from the ailment. It said that 1,109 patients recovered during the last 24 …

• 12 million people fall in age bracket of 40-50 • Walk-in facility allowed for people over 50 • 70 die, 4,825 contract virus in single day • Ulema to extend assistance in SOPs’ enforcement ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday decided to open registration of around 12 million people in the …

A first information report (FIR) was registered against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra and the owner and manager of a restaurant in Peshawar for violating coronavirus standard operating procedures (SOPs) by hosting an iftar party on Monday. Peshawar Assistant Commissioner Ehteshamul Haq told Dawn.com that the administration took timely action after pictures of the iftar were shared on social media. …

Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood said on Tuesday that compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) outside Cambridge exam centres was “poor”, adding that the issue would be discussed by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). “Permission to hold exams was conditional on strict SOP observance. As more reports have come in, it is obvious that outside …

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said on Tuesday that a special committee of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was monitoring the oxygen situation in the country and trying to improve it. He made the comments during a press conference in Islamabad to apprise the public about the government’s steps to deal …

MADRID: A Spanish man with Covid-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them I’m going to give you all the coronavirus has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22 people. Spanish police said their investigation began after a Covid-19 outbreak at the company where the 40-year-old man worked on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Days …

India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid to fight the crisis overwhelming its hospitals. Infections in the past 24 hours rose to 352,991, with overcrowded hospitals in Delhi and elsewhere turning away patients after running out of supplies of medical …

With his head tilted back and his face mask pulled down, Imam Abdallah Hajjir patiently undergoes a nasal swab outside a Berlin mosque to get tested for the coronavirus. “Negative!” he smiles a few minutes later and heads inside for Friday prayers. The medical team manning a testing station outside the red-bricked “House of Wisdom” mosque is part of a …

Urges people to avoid Eid shopping, travelling 505 test positive in twin cities, six die in Pindi ISLAMABAD: The district administration has expressed hope that the Covid-19 situation in the capital will improve following deployment of the armed forces for enforcement of standard operating procedures (SOPs). The administration also urged people to avoid Eid shopping as well as travelling during …

LAHORE: Punjab health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Sunday said the province had made a commitment to the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) to increase its vaccination dispensation to around 35,000 over-50-year old people in the province to control exponential increase in the coronavirus infectivity rate. Speaking at a news conference at the chief minister’s secretariat here, she said …