Health

GENEVA: The global death toll from the COVID-19 surged past 200,000 on Sunday as the number of virus infections nears the grim three million milestone. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also warned against “immunity passports” for recovered patients, seen as a possible tool for countries preparing to re-open their …

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from coronavirus and have antibodies are protected from a second virus infection. In a scientific brief, the United Nations agency warned governments against issuing “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” to people …

TEHRAN:  The worldwide death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 191,000 with about 2.7 million cases and more than 749,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. The university’s data counted 191,084 deaths, while the number of cases and recoveries rose to 2,726,759 and 749,888, respectively. The US …

TEHRAN:Iranian Health Ministry announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases has hit 88,194 in Iran, while 66,596 have recovered from the disease. Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour pointed to the latest statistics on the coronavirus in the country, saying that 1,168 new cases have tested positive with …

A malaria drug widely touted as a potential cure for Covid-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care — and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed on Tuesday. The US government-funded analysis of how American military veterans fared on hydroxychloroquine …

The World Health Organization’s European office says that despite certain “optimistic signs” in some of the countries worst hit by the new coronavirus, the number of cases is rising and approaching one million in the continent alone. “We remain in the eye of the storm,”the WHO regional director for Europe, …

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed regret over the US president’s decision to cut funding to the body at the time of the new coronavirus pandemic. “This is a time for all of us to be united in our common struggle against a common threat,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

LAHORE: With six confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan, the Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Friday advised people to avoid shaking hands in order to stop spreading of coronavirus in the country, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad along with Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan …

KARACHI: Two new polio cases from Sindh were confirmed by the province’s emergency operation centre (EOC) for polio on Friday, taking the cases toll to 19 in 2019. An EOC Sindh spokesperson said the polio virus was found in Sukkur in a seven-year-old girl who had weakness in her right …

ISLAMABAD: A countrywide anti-polio campaign today (Monday) kicked-off under tight security measures, ARY News reported. During a five-day campaign in Punjab 19 million children under the age of five years will be administered anti-polio vaccine. In Sindh over 2.3 million children while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan over six point …