Health

PESHAWAR: The health department has directed the directorate general (health services) to look into the alleged irregularities in the purchase of medical equipment and award of contracts during the current coronavirus (Covid-19) emergency. The development comes on the orders of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat over a complaint lodged with the Pakistan Citizen Portal. The health department has been told to …

BANGKOK: Thailand expects to have a vaccine for the novel coronavirus ready next year, a senior official said on Wednesday, after finding positive trial results in mice. Thailand will begin testing the mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine in monkeys next week after successful trials in mice, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, spokesman for the government’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration. “The Thai vaccine …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra on Wednesday said that the recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the KP is better as compared to other provinces, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, the KP health minister said that the recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the province stands at 31 percent, which is the …

A deadly virus is spreading across the southwestern United States and killing wild rabbits on this continent for the first time, wildlife officials say. It’s a strain of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, and it’s recently appeared in pockets of the Western US. If it continues to spread unchecked, it could harm all dozen-plus species of rabbits in the US and the …

TOKYO: Shares of Fujifilm Holdings fell on Wednesday after Kyodo news reported that so far there has been no clear evidence of efficacy for its drug Avigan in treating the novel coronavirus in some clinical trials. The data reported to Japan’s health ministry by hospitals treating people showing mild or no symptoms raises doubts about whether the drug can be …

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before spreading across the world, prompting an international race to find treatments and vaccines. A drug being tested by scientists at China’s prestigious Peking University could not only shorten the …

LAHORE: Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Tuesday lamented that the Punjab government has not provided personal protective equipment and masks to healthcare professionals in the province. Talking to media outside the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), members of the association said the hospital is not safe for coronavirus patients as the SOPs are not followed. They regretted that test results …

GENEVA: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has become the first African to head the World Health Organization, faces the towering challenge of coordinating a global pandemic response increasingly complicated by US-China tensions. The former Ethiopian minister of health and foreign affairs, Tedros is the first African to head WHO. He finds himself at the heart of global efforts to rein in …

AURORA III; An Illinois woman who claimed to have COVID-19 was arrested Monday after spitting in a nurse’s face at an Aurora hospital. Just after midnight on Monday, police were called to Mercy Hospital, located in the 1300 block of North Highland Avenue, after received a report of the alleged incident. Cynthia Meyers, 33, of Oswego, was arrested after police …

KHAIRPUR: A minor boy was injured after being bitten by a stray dog in Khairpur’s tehsil of Setharja on Monday. According to details, the minor was playing outside his house when a stray dog attacked and bit him severely. He was taken to the Thari Mirwah Hospital, but the healthcare facility denied him vaccination claiming that they did not have the anti-rabies …