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LAHORE: Health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid says the health department is witnessing an alarming rise in the number of critically-ill patients and sudden rise of admissions to the ICUs. Chairing a meeting at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Sunday to review the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in the wake of alarming rise in number of patients at the ICUs, Dr …

• 5,050 more people contract virus • PMA seeks walk-in vaccination facility, special service for bedridden, handicapped ISLAMABAD: While the country reported the highest number of single-day deaths since June last year, 5,050 more people contracted Covid-19 on Sunday. The number of critical patients reached all-time high of 4,920 and that of active cases crossed 70,000 mark. According to data …

NEW DELHI:  India reported a record 152,879 new COVID-19 cases, health ministry data showed on Sunday, as a second-wave of infections continued to surge and overwhelm hospitals in parts of the country. The number of new fatalities stood at 839, the most deaths in more than five months, taking the toll to 169,275. India’s tally of more than 13.35 million …

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia sub-region surpassed the grim milestone of 15 million on Saturday, a Reuters tally shows, led by India’s record daily infections and vaccine shortages. South Asia – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lanka – accounts for 11% of global cases and almost 6% of deaths. The region accounts for 23% of the …

LONDON: As many as 60 countries might be stalled at the first shots of their coronavirus vaccinations because nearly all deliveries through the global programme are blocked until as late as June. The COVAX initiative is designed to provide vaccines to countries lacking the clout to negotiate on their own for scarce supplies. In the past two weeks, only 2 …

ISLAMABAD: An increase was seen in the number of Covid-19 cases and positivity rate in the capital on Saturday. Officials of the capital administration said 729 more people contracted the virus compared to 674 on Friday. During the last 24 hours, 7,888 tests were conducted, with the positivity rate climbing to 9.4pc compared to 7.7pc on Friday. The number of …

ISLAMABAD: As the cor­onavirus has claimed more than 500 lives in just five days with positivity ratio rising as high as 10.47 per cent, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) expects arrival of a large quantity of vaccine within next few weeks. At a session chaired by Min­ister for Planning, Deve­lopment and Special Initia­tives Asad Umar, it was decided …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Saturday commended Khyber Teaching Hospital revamp by sharing some pictures of the hospital in a post on Twitter. “Khyber Teaching Hospital has been totally revamped and modernised after a lot of effort. It is easy to build a new state-of-the-art hospital; but very difficult to fix our existing government hospitals.” PM Khan wrote …

ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 100 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 15,329. The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed the COVID-19 has claimed 100 more lives and 5,139 fresh infections were reported during the period. During the period of a day, the total count of active …

Surgeons worldwide have been performing lung transplants in COVID-19 survivors with irreversible lung damage, and an international group of transplant experts has proposed guidelines for selection of eligible patients. To possibly qualify for a transplant, COVID-19 survivors with complete lung failure should be younger than 65, nonsmokers, and have no pre-existing medical conditions, or only manageable ones, they advise. They said …