Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has urged public to use surgical or homemade cloth masks in crowded places rather than wearing N-95 mask. The PM took to Twitter saying, “N-95 mask is a specialized mask only for frontline health workers who take care of critically ill COVID-19 patients in مزید پڑھیں

Horseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood is set to remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to put on an equal footing a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups. The crabs’ copper-rich blood clots in the presence of bacterial endotoxins and has long مزید پڑھیں

Four doctors succumbed to the coronavirus in Pakistan over the past 24 hours as the country’s infections surged past 64,000 on Friday. Dr Sana Fatima, who worked at a private hospital in Lahore, a psychologist in Gunjrawala, Naeem Akhtar, Dr Khanzada who hailed from Afghanistan but was working in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Incharge BMC trauma مزید پڑھیں

British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) said on Thursday that its previous flu pandemic vaccine, which used some of the same ingredients as COVID-19 vaccines currently under development, was not linked to a rise in cases of the sleep disorder narcolepsy. A spokesman for GSK said the “science has moved on” since concerns were raised about links مزید پڑھیں

The French government on Wednesday cancelled a decree allowing hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. The announcement comes two days after the World Health Organisation said it was pausing a large trial of the malaria drug due to safety مزید پڑھیں

U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October, hoping to curb tens of thousands of serious cases that could coincide with a second wave of coronavirus infections. CVS Health Corp (CVS.N), one of the largest U.S. pharmacies, said it is working to ensure it has مزید پڑھیں

Countries where coronavirus infections are declining could still face an “immediate second peak” if they let up too soon on measures to halt the outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. The world is still in the middle of the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak, WHO emergencies head Dr Mike Ryan told مزید پڑھیں

The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. A coronavirus vaccine developed by CanSino Biologics Inc appears to be safe and induced a rapid immune response in its first human trial, مزید پڑھیں

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Zafar Mirza on Tuesday called for coordinated, collective and sustained actions among countries and institutions to suppress and mitigate COVID-19 pandemic. This was stated by Dr. Zafar Mirza while addressing the 73rd Session of World Health Assembly held in Geneva-Switzerland via video conference here Tuesday. World مزید پڑھیں

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before spreading across the world, prompting an international race to find treatments and vaccines. A drug being tested by scientists at China’s prestigious Peking University مزید پڑھیں