Health

LARKANA: Stray dogs on Wednesday bitten 10 more people in Larkana, taking the overall toll to 210 in last 21 days in the district. As per details, three children, a woman were among 10 people who fall prey to stray dogs in Larkana. They were moved to emergency ward of Chandka Hospital. ARV centre in-charge said, the affected people were …

MELBOURNE: Australia is on course to have largely eradicated the coronavirus by July, a public health official said on Wednesday, as the country’s most populous state announced the removal of restrictions on community sports. “Our view has been that we had hoped that by June/July that we would see coronavirus largely disappearing from the country, so this is pretty much …

The world is facing an “impending global food emergency” that could impact hundreds of millions of people as the coronavirus pandemic threatens already strained supply chains, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday. “Our food systems are failing, and the Covid-19 pandemic is making things worse,” the UN chief said in a statement accompanying a report by the world body. “More than 820 million people are …

BEIJING: China has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, state media reported on Tuesday, days after increasing legal protections on the endangered animal. Pangolins were left out of the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia this year, along with substances including a pill formulated with bat faeces, the state-owned Health Times reported. The pangolin, the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal, is …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded 23 deaths due to Covid-19 on Tuesday, raising the overall number of people passed away from the infection to 610 in the province. It is the highest number of fatalities recorded by the province in a single day since the onset of the pandemic. A total of 521 new cases were detected during the last 24 …

ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has provided more ventilators and X-ray machines to the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government, on Monday. The NDMA spokesperson said that overall 15 ventilators including 10 for intensive care unit and 5 portable breathing machines were dispatched to GB. The medical staff will also be trained to use the ventilators by the company’s representatives, added …

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic situation was worsening around the globe, as it warned against complacency. The WHO said it had recorded its highest daily tally of new infections, with COVID-19 raging in the Americas. And as mass protests for racial justice sweep across the United States and beyond, the United Nations’ health …

KARACHI: The Grand Health Alliance (GHA) continues its strike in government hospitals of the province in favour of their demands on Monday. The Grand Health Alliance demands acceptance of 13-points demands including immediate construction of isolation centres in the province amid coronavirus outbreak. The protesting doctors are demanding risk allowance as number of doctors have tested positive for the deadly …

ISLAMABAD: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan now has passed 100,000 mark and currently stands at 103,671 after detection of 4,728 new infections in last 24 hours, on Monday. According to the latest data released by the National Command and Operation Center, death toll from COVID-19 is currently recorded at 2,067 with 65 more virus-related deaths reported in …

PARIS: The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 400,000 on Sunday with fatalities accelerating in the epicentre of Latin America even as Europe emerges from its virus lockdown with infections there increasingly under control. Almost seven million infections have been registered since Covid-19 emerged in China late last year, forcing much of the globe into lockdown and …