Tag: Health crisis

Dow University of Health Sciences researchers testing the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy have noted 100% recovery of severe patients and 50%-60% recovery among critical patients during clinical trials. For more stories in the COVID-19 second wave, keep scrolling.

Three doctors have died of complications from COVID in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab as death toll from pandemic hit 8,905 in the country. For more updates on the second wave, keep reading.

As many as 36 people succumbed to the novel coronavirus disease on Sunday. Daily positivity rate fell slightly to 7.42% as 2,362 out of 31,830 collected samples returned positive, while 1,719 managed to beat the virus, indicating a recovery rate of 87.3%. For more updates on the coronavirus second wave, keep reading.

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan states that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available in Pakistan by March, and will be issued to the general populace in its third phase of immunization. For more updates on the second wave, keep reading.

Second wave infections have reached June peak-levels in province, Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab informs apex committee on COVID-19. 207 additional ventilators provided to various hospitals across the province. For more news on the second wave, read on.

The 300-bed Lahore Expo Center quarantine facility reopens amidst an influx of COVID-19 patients as the second wave rages on.

Following Punjab and Islamabad, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Thursday banned indoor dining at eateries and hotels, however delivery and takeaway services have been exempted.

10 doctors succumb to COVID-19 in past 5 days, six of whom breathed their last on November 29. The Pakistan Medical Association revealed that so far 18 doctors have fallen victim to the novel coronavirus disease in the second wave.

Dining at restaurants in Islamabad barred over rising infections; 6 Peshawar localities under smart lockdown; 15 public school students in Tank infected; 100 healthcare workers lost to COVID-19 till date; coronavirus infections on rise in North Waziristan.

About 70% of total national cases of coronavirus are emerging from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar.