Health

ISLAMABAD: The administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has decided to take action against health workers refusing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The hospital administration has instructed all healthcare professionals having registered themselves for vaccination to get the jab at the earliest. Those refusing the vaccine will have to face action, it warned. The new instructions were …

WASHINGTON: The US House passed an enormous, $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early on Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a critical step in funneling new funding towards vaccinations, overburdened local governments, and millions of families devastated by the pandemic. Four days after the Covid-19 death toll surpassed 500,000 in the United States, the sprawling measure backed by President Joe Biden …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has claimed that Pakistan is among 92 countries in the world where the UK strain of Covid-19 has been detected, urging people to follow health guidelines and go for vaccination. On the other hand, following the emergence of 1,315 more patients and 33 deaths in a single day, the overall number of cases since the first …

WUHAN, China: A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the …

SEOUL: South Korea said 18,489 people received their first doses of AstraZeneca PLC’s vaccine by midnight on Friday as it launched an ambitious COVID-19 inoculation campaign, and will begin using Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines on Saturday. The first to receive the shots are healthcare workers, staffers at assisted care facilities and other high-risk people, with a goal of vaccinating 32 million to …

MUZAFFARABAD: Amid an alarming spike in Covid-19 cases in Mirpur district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the local administration announced a one-week lockdown in the district from Monday. All educational institutions will remain closed for two weeks and other religious, political and social activities have also been banned, according to an order issued by office of the Deputy Commissioner …

LAHORE: The new positive cases of Covid-19 jumped to 748 on Friday in Punjab, the highest figures reported in a day across the province this month, raising concerns among health experts. With the new infections, the total number of the confirmed cases of the virus reached 170,222 in Punjab since March last year. Of the new cases, most of them …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 32 more coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 12,804. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 32 more lives and 1,541 fresh infections were reported. The total count of active cases is 22,285. In the past 24 hours, as many …

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar has approved the establishment of five more Mother and Child Hospitals in the province. He announced this during a meeting with health officials here in Lahore. Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid was also present in the meeting. Speaking at a meeting, the chief minister said that these hospitals will be set up in …

ACCRA: Ghana became the first country to receive vaccines from the global Covax scheme on Wednesday, paving the way for poorer nations to catch up with inoculation drives in wealthier parts of the world to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic. But Europe’s vaccine rollout faced fresh woes after AstraZeneca said it would only be able to deliver half its promised …