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Pakistan: Another case of mpox reported at Karachi AirportAuthorities at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport have reported a suspected case of monkeypox in a traveller from Jeddah. The individua...
15 Sep, 2024, 07.09 AM IST
Pakistan: Four samples collected from four cities tests positive for Wild Poliovirus 1Environmental samples collected from four cities in Pakistan, including Karachi and Peshawar, have tested positive for Wild Poliovirus 1 (W...
19 Oct, 2023, 12.59 PM IST
Pak to strictly monitor passengers from India amid spike in Covid-19 cases: ReportThe Directorate of Health Sciences in Pakistan issued a circular and said monitoring of Indian passengers will be conducted at all entry po...
25 Jul, 2022, 02.13 PM IST
Pakistan orders masks on domestic flights as COVID numbers risePakistan has had very few COVID cases over recent months and had done away with almost all precautions. But over the past 24 hours, the nat...
27 Jun, 2022, 12.18 PM IST
Pakistan hints at new wave of COVID-19; reports spike in numbers of omicron cases: Minister Asad UmarPakistan has already braved four waves of the pandemic since the first case of the coronavirus was reported on February 26, 2020.
02 Jan, 2022, 02.08 PM IST
First case of B.1.617 COVID-19 variant found in PakistanThe sequencing results confirmed the detection of seven cases of B.1.351 [South African variant] and one case of B.1.617.2 [first identifie...
29 May, 2021, 04.25 PM IST
Pakistan approves Chinese anti-COVID vaccine Sinopharm for emergency useDRAP approved the vaccine on Monday, two days after it had approved the emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
19 Jan, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
Pakistan approves initial funds to purchase COVID-19 vaccineThe initial phase of vaccinations would focus on providing free shots for frontline health workers and people above the age of 65 years, Fa...
01 Dec, 2020, 10.38 PM IST
US study to track impact of COVID-19 among pregnant women in India, 6 other countriesThe study will follow women through pregnancy and 12 months after childbirth to compare maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes of participant...
02 Sep, 2020, 02.31 PM IST
Pakistan's health institute receives offer from Chinese firm to collaborate for COVID-19 vaccine, says reportThe Islamabad-based National Institute of Health Executive Director Maj Gen Dr Aamer Ikram said that although no action has so far been tak...
24 Apr, 2020, 10.47 AM IST
Three new polio cases detected in PakistanMilitants allege that the anti-polio vaccine is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Muslims though Islamic scholars reject any such allegatio...
31 Jan, 2015, 02.29 PM IST
Pakistan breaks its own record of maximum polio cases a yearA health official from said that out of eight new cases, six are from tribal areas and adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and one each f...
04 Oct, 2014, 02.44 PM IST