Over 8,000 healthcare professionals in Pakistan have now tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the ministry of national health services, regulation and coordination. As of October 19, 87 healthcare workers have died, while there are a total of 8,272 infections in the profession. Separately, 7,902 medics have recovered since the outbreak in Pakistan in مزید پڑھیں

NCOC oversees Pakistan’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday warned that the country is fast approaching a point where there will be “no choice” left but to impose another sweeping lockdown. Warning that there is an urgent and immediate need to ensure the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for coronavirus prevention, the NCOC noted مزید پڑھیں

COVID19 claimed 19 more lives the country during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,692. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 660 fresh infections emerged during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 324,744. As many as 26,670 new tests were conducted over the مزید پڑھیں

Japanese researchers have revealed that coronavirus remains on the human skin for nine hours, stressing the need for frequent hand washing to combat the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The pathogen that causes the flu, by comparison, survives on human skin for about 1.8 hours, said the study, published this month in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal. مزید پڑھیں

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The number of confirmed dengue fever cases in Punjab has reached to 110 this year so far, after the detection of one new case. According to a spokesperson of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab, the fresh case was reported in Lahore and the patient has been under treatment. In an earlier statesment the مزید پڑھیں

Dr Usman, Former head of the ENT department at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) passed away due to the novel coronavirus on Saturday. JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali said that Dr Usman had passed away at 2am in the morning, adding that he was on a ventilator for the last two days at a مزید پڑھیں

A person with blood type O may have a reduced risk of contracting coronavirus and even with the infection, a lower risk of severe symptoms, new studies have shown. According to two studies published in “Blood Advances” — a peer-reviewed, online only, open access journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) — there is مزید پڑھیں

A Japanese supercomputer has revealed the greater risk posed by the coronavirus contagion in dry, indoor conditions during winter months and that humidity can have a massive impact on the dispersion of the virus’s particles. The finding suggests that the use of humidifiers may help limit infections during times when window ventilation is not possible, مزید پڑھیں

Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it had temporarily paused its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, delaying one of the highest profile efforts to contain the global pandemic. The participant’s illness is being reviewed and evaluated by an independent data and safety monitoring board as well مزید پڑھیں