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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Monday 74 more people died of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours – the highest number of fatalities in the province since the outbreak of the virus. In a statement on the coronavirus situation, he said the number of people who have succumbed to the virus in Sindh …

MILAN: A small study by researchers in Italy has found that COVID-19 patients who were tested for the novel coronavirus at a hospital there in May had fewer virus particles than those who were tested a month earlier. The researchers offered some theories for the lower “viral load”, including that lockdown measures may have reduced patients’ exposure to the virus, …

BEIJING: China’s military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics after clinical trials proved it was safe and showed some efficacy, the company said on Monday. The Ad5-nCoV is one of China’s eight vaccine candidates approved for human trials at home and abroad for the respiratory disease caused by …

KARACHI: 2,179 fresh coronavirus cases were detected in Sindh in the past 24 hours after 9,244 tests conducted in the province. Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah in a statement on the coronavirus situation said that the total number of infections across the province has soared to 80,446 as the province conducted a total of 4,35,393 tests. Shah …

LAHORE: Punjab has reported 1,322 new coronavirus cases, taking the provincial tally to 74,202, according to the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department. It has also reported 17 additional deaths, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 1,673. More than 25,000 people have recovered from the virus in Punjab thus far. 1322 fresh cases were detected after 6,600 …

NEW DELHI: India now has more than 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to government figures released on Saturday that showed a record daily leap of 18,500 new infections. Authorities said a total of 15,685 people had died after another 385 fatalities were added to the toll in 24 hours. The pandemic is not expected to peak in India for several …

ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan’s tally of the novel coronavirus cases crossed the 200,000 mark on Saturday, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) did brainstorming to find reasons for a sudden decline in the number of daily tests and new cases during the past one week. The country reported 3,709 cases and 94 deaths over the past 24 hours, taking the …

America’s top infectious diseases expert has warned the United States is facing a “serious problem” from a resurgent coronavirus as the illness puts the brakes on reopening two of the country’s largest states. The contagion also continued its march through Latin America, where Brazil recorded another 1,140 deaths and Argentina toughened a lockdown in the capital Buenos Aires. In Europe …

MADRID: Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona wastewater collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday. The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the …

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said on Friday that a global initiative to speed up the development and production of Covid-19 tests, vaccines and treatments will require more than $30 billion over the next year. Providing details of the so-called ACT accelerator, launched in April and aimed at pooling international resources to combat the pandemic, WHO said “the costed plans …