KARACHI: Thousands of patients seeking consultation and medical intervention had to return home in sheer disappointment when they visited many government hospitals in Sindh on Thursday as house officers, doctors, paramedics and other support staff observed a boycott of outpatient department (OPD) duties on a call given by the recently formed Grand Health Alliance (GHA). […]
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TIMERGARA: Suspected Covid-19 patients and their relatives from Lower Dir have complained that they had been waiting for results of their test for over a week and the delay was troubling them. Talking to mediapersons, they said they had quarantined themselves at homes after developing signs and symptoms of the infection about 10 days ago. […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court of Islamabad on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supreme leader Nawaz Sharif in a reference that accused him, Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and PPP leader Yousuf Raza Gilani of receiving luxury vehicles and gifts from Toshakhana. The court directed the […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday warned that strict action will now be taken against those found to be violating the government’s standard operating procedures (SOPs) for curbing the spread of the coronavirus, adding that he will be monitoring the situation from the Prime Minister’s Office. Pakistan currently ranks among the top 10 countries in […]
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ISLAMABAD: With the novel coronavirus rapidly spreading across the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said he was already aware that the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths would increase with the passage of time but smart lockdown was the only option for Pakistan to deal with the disease. The country reported 6,321 Covid-19 […]
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SURGEONS in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus. Northwestern Medicine on Thursday announced the procedure, which took place last Friday. Only a few other Covid-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants. The Chicago patient is in her 20s and […]
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WASHINGTON: America’s top general said on Thursday he was wrong to appear with President Donald Trump in a photo op near the White House last week, staged after the area was forcefully cleared of anti-racism protesters. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States has hit the two million-mark for confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, two major monitoring agencies reported on Thursday. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported that the US had registered two million Covid-19 cases by late Wednesday. The center had recorded about 2,004,000 cases by Thursday afternoon. Another monitoring agency, Worldometers, […]
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The New Zealand city of Hamilton on Friday tore down a statue of the colonial military commander after whom it was named, joining a growing list of places worldwide that are reckoning with their past. A crane hoisted the bronze sculpture of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton from the town square after requests from local […]
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GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to rural areas after international travellers brought it to capital cities, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. But the WHO said there was no indication that large numbers of severe cases and deaths were being missed, nor has the virus caused significant infections in refugee […]
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