Madrid (Reuters): European countries from Denmark to Greece announced new restrictions on Friday to mitigate the soaring COVID-19 cases in some of their largest cities, while Britain is considering a new national lockdown. Cases in the United Kingdom almost doubled to 6,000 per day in the latest reporting week, hospital admissions rose and infection rates […]
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LAHORE: As many as 51 students, three teachers and a staffer tested positive for the novel coronavirus in various schools in Punjab on Monday. Talking to journalists, Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Secretary Captain (retd) Muhammad Usman confirmed that 51 students and three teachers were diagnosed with COVID-19, adding that nine class rooms of […]
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Researchers all over the globe are testing a range of drugs they hope can stop the novel coronavirus before it turns fatal. Most of these drugs are existing ones, used to tackle other diseases and viral infections. The only two medicines that are known to work on coronavirus, remdesevir and steroids, are generally not administered […]
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GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Pakistan among seven countries that have tackled coronavirus pandemic in the best way. Pakistan has successfully flattened the coronavirus curve despite its dilapidated health infrastructure while the deadly contagion is spreading uncontrollably in many developed countries of the world. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while speaking […]
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More young adults survive heart attacks than severe COVID-19 Among COVID-19 patients treated at 419 U.S. hospitals from April through June, only about 5% were ages 18 to 34. But that group had “substantial rates of adverse outcomes,” according to a report on Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Roughly one in five needed intensive care, […]
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ZURICH/FRANKFURT: AstraZeneca should still know before the end of the year whether its experimental vaccine protects people against COVID-19, the drugmaker’s chief executive Pascal Soriot said on Thursday, as long as it can resume trials soon. The British company suspended late-stage trials this week after an illness in a participant in Britain. The patient was […]
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