Health

WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AJMA). On Saturday, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) arranged a seminar which also concluded that there’s no religious restriction …

HYDERABAD: The director general of health, Sindh, Dr Irshad Memon, has asked all the officials concerned to discourage use of government ambulance services for transporting dead bodies from hospitals to other places. “These vehicles are only for shifting critically sick people from one to another health facility on medical advice, the Sindh health DG said in a letter addressed to …

450 health professionals to receive jabs every day Twin cities report two deaths, over 100 cases ISLAMABAD: With over 17,000 frontline healthcare workers having registered for inoculation, the federal capital is all set to start its Covid-19 vaccination at nine centres set up in the city. As many as 450 healthcare workers will be vaccinated daily for a few days. …

LAHORE: As the educational institutions are opening after a long break on Monday (today), the Punjab primary and secondary healthcare department has issued fresh instructions for the observance of SOPs to keep masses from the still raging coronavirus infection. After getting formal approval from the chief minister, the primary and secondary healthcare department has instructed that all public and private …

The first batch of Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Pakistan from China on Monday via a special Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft. The batch contains 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine that has been gifted by China. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health (SAPM) Dr Faisal Sultan announced the development in a tweet and expressed his gratitude to the …

WUHAN: A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of the coronavirus toured a propaganda exhibition celebrating China’s recovery from the pandemic in Wuhan on Saturday, after a meeting at the hospital that treated the first confirmed Covid-19 cases over a year ago. Details of the trip have been scant so far, with the media kept at arm’s length and …

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Friday backtracked on a threat to restrict exports of coronavirus shots to Northern Ireland in its growing row with Britain, as the WHO warned against “vaccine nationalism”. Outbreaks are raging around the globe with Covid-19 deaths nearing 2.2 million, and while wealthy countries fight over limited vaccine supplies, there are fears the less privileged will …

A special plane of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) left for China on Sunday to bring back the first batch of the 500,000 vaccine doses that China had promised to provide to Pakistan earlier this month, according to a statement by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). The NCOC has already decided upon a “comprehensive strategy” for the administration of the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 65 more coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 11,623. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 65 more lives and 2,179 fresh infections were reported. In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,407 patients have recovered from the virus …

ISLAMABAD: The first batch of coronavirus vaccine is expected to reach Pakistan from China on February 1 citing health department sources.  As many as 500,000 shots of the COVID-19 vaccine will be transported to Islamabad from Beijing via Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft. Vaccine from China would reach phase-wise, sources said. The vaccine would be preserved in the EPI’s cold …