the current upheaval could lead to a spike in COVID-19 infections, Ahmed Al-Mandhari told a press

ISLAMABAD: Progress made by Pakistan against polio has been recognised at a meeting of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Subcommittee on Polio Eradication and Outbreaks as members reiterated that this was the time to amplify efforts to achieve eradication. According to a statement issued on Tuesday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan assured the members that the programme in Pakistan was making all-out efforts in the pursuit of zero polio transmission.“ Pak

WHO has announced that researchers and scientists from Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are joining thousands of researchers in 52 countries worldwide in the study, making up the largest global collaboration on Covid-19 research and development.... Artesunate is used for severe malaria, imatinib for specific cancers, and infliximab for diseases of the immune system, such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.... “ Covid-19 has been the most disruptive public

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre( NCOC) data, released on Wednesday, showed that 3, 974 new cases of Covid-19 and 66 deaths caused by the disease were reported in a single day and the national positivity rate remained at 6.91 per cent.... While 44.32 million doses of vaccine have been administered, vaccination centres will remain closed on 10th of Muharram( today) across the country.... Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation( WHO) has announced that it will stay in Afghan

The World Health Organization( WHO) and the United Nations children's agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, the first nationwide campaign to fight the disease in three years. Naikwali Shah Momim, the National Emergency Operations Coordinator for the polio programme at Afghanistan's health ministry, told Reuters the campaign had started in various parts of the country on Monday, but added there were several hurdles around a shortage of trained staff. The campaig

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Some 2, 000 have been airlifted to the UK in the last 24 hours-a total of 9, 226 since August 13.... People waited many nights as the Taliban controlled the first gate.... Most don't have permission to travel but are desperate to do an ra Bthth B so anyway." However, it looked like many could lose the race against time....

The drive aims to reach about 10 million children, according to Dr.... Hamid Jafari, head of polio eradication for the WHO’s eastern Mediterranean region. More than 3.3 million children had previously “ remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns, ” according to the statement announcing the drive.... “ Frontline health workers should never be a target of violence.” Around the same time of the shootings, there was an explosion at the city’s regional hospital, near the compound where the vacc

BOTH of us are public health professionals and have had the honour of serving in the capacity of health ministers in our countries.... Political upheavals, wars, civil strife and natural catastrophes have kept Afghanistan in emergency mode for decades.... Resultantly, Afghanistan ranks abysmally on most key health indicators regionally, and in some cases globally. Covid-19 has redefined the concept of national and global security....