China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country’s northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions. But the Omicron strain مزید پڑھیں

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the increasing COVID-19 cases in Asia are just the “tip of the iceberg” even though the cases have been seeing a decline over the last few weeks. Taking to Twitter, the Director-General of WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom wrote: “These increases are occurring despite reductions in testing in مزید پڑھیں

Scientists have pinpointed 16 new genetic variants in people who developed severe COVID-19 in a large study published on Monday that could help researchers develop treatments for very sick patients. The results suggest that people with severe COVID have genes that predispose them to one of two problems: failure to limit the ability of the مزید پڑھیں

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday congratulated Pakistan on vaccinating 100 million citizens against COVID-19. “Heartiest Congratulations to Pakistan,” the WHO wrote on Twitter.“The WHO applauds Govt of Pakistan for having over 100 million individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 virus.” “This indicates the tremendous efforts made by the Government of Pakistan in ensuring that مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan has reported 22 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,510,986. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 30,218 on Wednesday. According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) 765 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the مزید پڑھیں

Getting infected twice with two different Omicron coronavirus subvariants is possible, but rarely happens, a Danish study has found. In Denmark, a more infectious sublineage of the Omicron coronavirus variant known as BA.2 has quickly dethroned the “original” BA.1 variant, which is the most common worldwide, but it has remained unclear whether a person could مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan logged 33 new COVID-19 deaths during the last 24 hours, which took the country’s total death toll to 30,009, the National Command and Operation Centre’s (NCOC) data showed Sunday morning. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s overall case count since the start of the pandemic also went past 1.5 million as 1,644 new COVID-19 infections were detected after مزید پڑھیں