Tag: Disease
COVID Watch | 19th September 2020
Several schools and colleges across Pakistan sealed over SOP violations and disease prevalence. Meanwhile the Sindh government pushes back phase two of resuming on-campus education by a week as the infection spreads among students and teachers.
Making sense of the numbers: Virus prevalence in Pakistan
21st August 2020
By Asra Haque
LAHORE
Pakistan seems to be on the road to recovery from the SARS-CoV-2 (also known as the novel coronavirus or COVID-19)...
COVID Watch | 05th August 2020
15 deaths in past 24 hours: COVID-19 claims 15 more lives across Pakistan over the past 24 hours on August 4. Five people succumbed to the viral disease in Sindh, according to a statement from Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali ...
COVID Watch | 04th August 2020
No ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom stated that while there is hope for the development of a vaccine, and many experimental trials are indeed in their later stages ...
COVID Watch | 30th July 2020
Concern over reduced testing: The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its concerns over reduced testing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after recent swab tests revealed a positivity rate of 19%, prompting the call for increasing ...
COVID Watch | 29th July 2020
Under 1,000 new infections: 936 new cases and 23 deaths were reported countrywide in the last 24 hours, while 19,610 tests were carried out in all four provinces. Rawalpindi reported just one confirmed case while Islamabad, following ...
COVID Watch | 28th July 2020
Hepatitis patients at higher risk of COVID-19: Hepatitis patients are especially vulnerable to the novel coronavirus disease due to base damage to the liver and must practice greater caution during the ongoing pandemic situation. Currently, all ...