Health

PESHAWAR: The health department has been advised by National Command and Operation Centre to strictly monitor the trend of admission in hospitals, positivity of swabs and surveillance to be able to take appropriate measures to prevent the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. “Situation is under control as the positivity of suspected patients has dropped to 0.7 per cent which means …

LAHORE: City’s Air Quality Index appeared to be very unhealthy on Sunday amid forecast of massive rise in smog with continuous drop in temperatures and increase in stubble-burning and round-the-clock operation of brick kilns in suburbs and rural parts of the neighbouring country. “The AQI status of Town Hall has been recorded at 207. And it is a moderate one, …

ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has sealed 10 streets in seven residential sectors after another 157 cases of Covid-19 were reported on Sunday. “Every street that has been sealed has five or more cases of Covid-19. The decision has been made to keep the residents in isolation so that the spread of the virus can be stopped,” Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat …

LAHORE: The coronavirus resurgence due to the constant rise in the number of cases rings alarm bells in Punjab. The second wave is said to be worse than the initial spread of the disease the world over. Strict observance of the SOPs is the key to fend off the second wave of coronavirus but the situation on ground presents an …

ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus has claimed nine more lives across the country over the past 24 hours, surging the death toll to 6,736. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 832 fresh infections surfaced when 28,724 samples were tested during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 327,895. Overall 310,491 people have recovered from the disease …

ISLAMABAD: The health ministry has expressed severe outrage over the distribution of risk allowance to undeserving staff in federally-administered hospitals and decided to claim it back, citing sources. Sources told ARY News that the health ministry has decided to repossess risk allowance distributed among undeserving staff members at the hospitals administered by the federal government. In a letter issued to …

PARIS: A number of countries tightened anti-coronavirus measures on Saturday, with France extending a curfew and Belgium bringing forward its own, as Germany’s death toll passed 10,000 and the US reported 80,000 infections in a single day. In the Belgian capital Brussels, authorities moved up their curfew by an hour, and in Poland, President Andrzej Duda tested positive for Covid-19. …

ISLAMABAD: After more than 30 years of effort, the African region was certified as free of wild polio in August this year, and Pakistan could be the next country on the journey to a polio-free world, World Health Organisation Country Representative Dr Palitha Mahipala said on Saturday. Dr Mahipala was speaking at an event on World Polio Day, observed to …

ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus claimed twelve more lives in the country over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,727. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 847 fresh infections surfaced when 31,009 samples were tested during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 327,063. Around 310,101 people have recovered from the …

The United States broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported 84,218 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally. The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the presidential election on Nov. 3 and is hitting battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, North …