Tag: COVID-19
Pakistan may consider use of dexamethasone for COVID-19 patients treatment
By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan may consider the use of dexamethasone to treat critical novel coronavirus patients, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health, Dr. Zafar...
Pakistan to re-impose lock down in various cities to check coronavirus...
By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan's government has decided to seal selected areas of various cities from Monday night to help check the spread of the coronavirus...
Pakistan may have 1.2 million Covid-19 cases by end July, warns...
By Muhammad Luqman
The number of COVID -19 cases in Pakistan may touch the alarming level of 1.2 million by end July , warned Minister...
Pakistani university develops COVID-19 Testing kit
By Muhammad Luqman
In a major breakthrough vis-à-vis indigenous development of diagnostic kits for the detection of COVID-19, Pakistan's National University of Sciences & Technology...
Pakistan: Former PM Gillani, cricketer Shahid Afridi test positive for Coronavirus
By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has tested positive for COVID-19, his family members confirmed on Saturday.
Gilani, the country’s second...
ADB board okays $500m loan for Pakistan coronavirus relief fund
By Muhammad Luqman
The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $500 million to help Pakistan government in its social protection programmes...
Stun batons to enforce Covid SOPs amounts to torture, says HRCP
By Muhammad Luqman
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the use of stun batons in the textile city of Faisalabad...
COVID-19: WHO recommends intermittent lockdown in Pakistan
By Muhammad Luqman
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that Pakistan should impose an "intermittent lockdown" to curb the spread of Covid-19, noting that...
Pakistan: Ex-Prime Minister Abbasi tests positive for coronavirus
By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan's former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has tested positive for coronavirus, according to media reports on Monday.
Abbasi, who served as premier...
Pandemic : Pakistan leaves China behind in corona cases
Monitoring Desk
Pakistan has left behind China in coronavirus positive cases as the total number of the people affected by the contagion in the South...