Health

LAHORE: The Covid-19 infection is spreading at an ‘alarming’ rate in government schools all over the province. An official report unveiled that 1,004 schoolchildren of nursery to matriculation class tested positive for the virus during the last two months with a higher percentage than reported during the first wave of the infection in Punjab. According to the report, hundreds of …

ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has asked all government and private hospitals treating Covid-9 patients to increase isolation wards and arrange more beds and ventilators in the wake of rising number of cases. According to sources, representatives of some private hospitals met capital administration officials on Monday to discuss the issue and make necessary arrangements. These facilities will also be arranged …

• 19pc of cases found in educational institutions • NCOC reports 38,348 active patients • PMA says virus more lethal in second wave ISLAMABAD: The highest positivity ratio of the current season was recorded on Monday as Pakistan continues to reel under the impact of Covid-19. According to the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded fresh 2,756 COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, 34 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 7,696. 1,389 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 1,677 patients are in critical condition. According to the …

WASHINGTON: Most coronavirus infections are spread by people who have no symptoms and masks are the only available protection against this, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in newly updated guidance. The warning follows the second wave of Covid-19 infection, which is spreading at an unprecedented speed. So far, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recorded …

PESHAWAR: The provincial government has ordered the medical teaching institutions to enhance the number of Covid-19 beds on emergency basis as hospitalisation due to coronavirus increased by 100 per cent during the past one week. Health officials said that the number of patients on ventilators had risen by 200 per cent over the last fortnight. “Health minister has instructed the …

KARACHI: The Sindh government finds itself in a fix after its own task force on coronavirus has strongly recommended immediately taking all possible measures that had been taken during the first wave of the pandemic. However, after almost a week since the recommendations were made, the government is yet to move at the same pace with which it had acted …

A meeting of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was informed on Monday that hospitalisations due to Covid-19 in Pakistan have doubled in the last two weeks while the positivity ratio had increased to 7.46 per cent in the last 24 hours. According to the government’s database for tracking the spread of coronavirus in the country, 2,756 cases were …

The United States hopes t begin a sweeping program of Covid vaccinations in early December, the head of the government coronavirus vaccine effort said Sunday. “Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours of approval” by the US Food and Drug Administration, Moncef Slaoui told CNN. “So I expect maybe on Day Two …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Captain (retd) Safdar Awan has again tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Safdar Awan had returned to Lahore from Gilgit after testing positive for COVID-19 on November 8. He was under treatment at the Sharif Medical City Lahore. After completing the quarantine process, the PML-N stalwart again went for the COVID-19 diagnosis test, …