ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported as many as 758 new Covid-19 cases and six deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the government’s database.The number of critical patients of Covid-19 in various hospitals across the country has come down to 722. The national tally of confirmed cases has climbed to 1,516,150 while the death toll is […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday received 4.7 million more doses of Pfizer vaccine via the COVAX global distribution, bringing the total number of vaccines donated to almost 57m. To date, the United States has donated over 453m vaccines around the world, and Pakistan has received a significant amount of doses, the US embassy said in a […]
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QUETTA: Balochistan health authorities on Sunday announced 23 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the province in last 24 hours.Coronavirus test positivity ratio in the province remained 6.34 percent,” provincial health department said in its report. “In seven districts of Balochistan including Quetta 363 covid diagnostic tests held yesterday and 23 positive cases detected,” health department […]
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Covid-19 has claimed 33 more lives in Pakistan during the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 29,950, the data shared by the National Command and Operation Centre showed Friday.As per details, 2,400 fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported during the same period when 48,744 tests were conducted. A total of 48,744 samples were […]
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The immune response to COVID-19 helps protect against reinfection, but that protection is weaker against Omicron than it was against earlier variants of the coronavirus, according to new data. A previous SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against Omicron reinfection only 56% of the time, researchers found in a review of national data in Qatar. Having had COVID […]
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COVID-19 has claimed 50 more lives while 4,253 new cases have been reported during last 24 hours. According to data issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday morning, there have been 50 additional coronavirus-related deaths in Pakistan in the last 24 hours (Tuesday), and 4,352 illnesses have been reported countrywide. According […]
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ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) on Tuesday launched a door to door campaign to vaccinate people against COVID-19. On February 26, 2020, the first COVID-19 case in Pakistan was reported. As of September 18, 2020, Pakistan had recorded 304,386 confirmed cases; of them, 291,683 patients were released, and 6,408 (2%) of those […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported 6,047 fresh cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours,According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a total of 61,190 samples were tested, out of which 6,047 turned out to be positive, showing the infection rate of 9.88% as compared to yesterday’s 9.65 per cent. Since the outbreak […]
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ISLAMABAD: COVID positivity ratio in major urban centres of the country with Nowshera city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province leading with 46.77 percent ratio, ARY NEWS reported. According to sources in the national health ministry, the overall Covid positivity ratio in Pakistan stood at 12.46 percent during the last 24 hours, with KP province recording […]
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A new type of PCR test can quickly tell which variant of the coronavirus is causing infection, helping doctors choose the most effective antibody treatments, researchers said. Most current PCR tests can check broadly for the presence of the virus but cannot identify specific variants. The new test uses special “probes” – fluorescently labeled molecules […]
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