Health

Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ruled, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak. “I am deeply concerned about the monkeypox outbreak, this is clearly an evolving health threat that my colleagues and I in the WHO Secretariat are following extremely closely,” Tedros said in …

ISLAMABAD: Covid-19 saw an uptick in cases as over 400 people were found infected in the country after about three months, with one succumbing to the virus on Saturday. As per the data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), Pakistan reported 435 cases and a national infection ratio of 3.19pc on Saturday. The last time more than 435 …

Pakistan reported more than 400 coronavirus cases for a second consecutive day on Sunday as Karachi’s positivity rate was recorded as 21.71 per cent — the highest in the country. Data released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) showed that 406 Covid-19 cases were reported across the country during the last 24 hours. A day earlier, 435 cases were …

Pakistan has reported a new case of polio as the health authorities diagnosed an eight-month-old baby boy with poliovirus in North Waziristan’s Mir Ali Union Council (UC) 7. The health ministry’s spokesperson confirmed the detection of a new polio case in North Waziristan. The number of cases in Mir Ali has reached eight. The spokesperson said that this year’s cases were reported …

Beijing on Saturday said it would allow primary and secondary schools to resume in-person classes and Shanghai’s top party boss declared victory over Covid after the city reported zero new local cases for the first time in two months. The two major cities were among several places in China that implemented curbs to stop the spread of the Omicron wave …

GSK and Novartis on Thursday reinforced commitments to address neglected tropical diseases, as world leaders and health experts gather in Rwanda to discuss ways to better combat illnesses affecting more than a billion people, mostly in impoverished communities. The intention is to spur a renewed effort to address some 20 diseases that have been eradicated in the developed world – …

More than 3,200 confirmed monkeypox cases and one death were reported to the World Health Organization as part of the current outbreak. There is need for intensified surveillance in the broader community, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday, adding that cases in non-endemic countries were still predominantly among men who have sex with men. “Person-to-person transmission is ongoing …

ISLAMABAD: As many as 303 new coronavirus cases were reported in country over the last 24 hours, according to the daily update of the National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH). According to NIH, the new infections were detected after 13,941 coronavirus diagnostic tests performed across the country, which placed Pakistan’s positivity ratio at 2.22% and the overall case count at …

ISLAMABAD: After the United Kingdom discovered the poliovirus in sewage samples in London for the first time in the last four decades, suspicion has fallen on Pakistan as being the source. However, health authorities in Islamabad claim the “vaccine-derived virus” found in the UK exists in 22 countries and the type found locally was the wild poliovirus (WPV). The UK …

DOHA: Propelled by inflation, the price of air tickets has begun to take off again after tumbling during the pandemic, a reversal that looks set to intensify due to environmental pressures, experts say. For members of the International Air Transport Association, gathered in Doha for their annual meeting this week, minds are focused on how far such increases risk undermining …