ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 118 more lives in Pakistan during the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 15,872, ARY News reported on Thursday. The latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) showed the COVID-19 has claimed 118 more lives and 5,395 fresh infections were…
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) home department has issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) to curb the spread of coronavirus pandemic, ARY News reported on Wednesday. The new set of orders stated that the markets and other trade activities will be closed till 6:00 pm, whereas, the business centres across…
MUMBAI/HARIDWAR: India’s new coronavirus infections reached a record on Wednesday, as crowds gathered for Kumbh festival despite oxygen shortages and strict curbs in other areas. The country reported 184,372 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, taking total infections to 13.9 million. Deaths rose by 1,027, for…
ISLAMABAD: The national assembly standing committee on national health has Tuesday held a session to discuss the situation of public hospitals in the federal capital while mulling over the reforms in the National Insititute of Health (NIH), ARY News reported. The session, chaired by legislator Khalid Hussain Magsi, had over…
A Munich-based company hopes to help usher in a new era of coronavirus testing with an eye scan that, it says, takes just three minutes to identify carriers of the disease and has a hit rate of 95%. Semic RF has developed its scanning app with colleagues in the United…
LAHORE: Punjab on Tuesday extended smart lockdown for two weeks in cities with high coronavirus prevalence, ARY News reported. Punjab Primary and Secondary Health has issued notification regarding extension in the lockdown. As per notification, there shall also be a complete ban on gatherings of all kinds for social,…
ZURICH: Regeneron is pursuing US approval for its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody cocktail as a preventative treatment after it helped cut the risk of symptomatic infections in households where someone else is ill, the U.S. drugmaker said on Monday. REGEN-COV, a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab, protected household contacts from exposure…
Web Desk On Apr 12, 2021 Last updated Apr 12, 2021 LAHORE: A sessions court extended on Monday the interim bail granted to PML-N MNA Javed Latif in a case pertaining to allegedly defaming state institutions. Additional sessions Judge Wajid Minhas extended the bail until April 14. Javed Latif didn’t…
BEIJING: China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines, as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy. Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy, but require less stringent temperature controls during storage. The currently…