Health

WUHAN: The nationwide death toll from China´s viral epidemic has leapt to 170, the government said on Thursday, with more than 1,700 new infections confirmed. Thirty-seven of the 38 new deaths came in hard-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of a contagion that is causing mounting global fear. Another death occurred in southwestern Sichuan province, the National Health Commission reported. Tibet also …

BATTAGRAM/SHANGLA: The administrations of Battagram and Shangla districts have established isolation wards in hospitals as a precautionary measure against the possible spread of coronavirus, which has originated in the city of Wuhan in the central Chinese province of Hubei. The precautionary steps were taken on the directives of provincial health department in the two districts, where a large number of …

BEIJING: A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 82 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world. Here are the places that have confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: – CHINA – As of Monday, more than 2,700 people have been infected across China, the bulk of them …

BEIJING: Evacuating foreign nationals from the epic centre of China´s deadly virus outbreak is unnecessary, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday according to state media. The health body said it was still “waiting for clarification” about the comments of its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who met with Chinese officials in Beijing, including President Xi Jinping to discuss how to contain …

WUHAN: China on Sunday expanded drastic travel restrictions to contain a viral contagion that President Xi Jinping said posed a “grave” threat, as the death toll reached 56 and Shanghai reported its first fatality. China has locked down the worst-hit province of Hubei in the country´s centre in a massive quarantine affecting tens of millions of people to slow the …

PARIS: Three cases of the coronavirus have been “confirmed” in France, the first in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Friday. The first case involved a patient in hospital in the southwestern city of Bordeaux while the other was in Paris, the minister told reporters. Both had recently travelled to China and had now been placed in isolation. “We …

The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has found that only three out of 11 locations at the Parliament House and Lodges have safe drinking water, Geo News reported on Friday. The PCRWR report shows that Parliament house and lodges have unsafe drinking water. A technical team of the PCRWR, which  regularly monitors the drinking water quality of Parliament House …

BEIJING: China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epic entre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported Friday. The facility in the central city of Wuhan is expected to be in use by February 3 to serve a rising number of patients …

GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday urged China to ensure transport lockdowns in several cities are “short in duration” as it tries to prevent the spread of a deadly virus. “China has taken measures it believes appropriate to contain the spread of coronavirus in Wuhan and other cities. We hope that they will be both effective …

WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The United States announced its first case of a new virus that has claimed six lives in China and sickened hundreds, joining countries around the world in ramping up measures to block its spread. The man, a US resident in his 30s who lives near Seattle, is in good condition, according to federal and state officials, and approached authorities …