COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is largely a respiratory illness that affects the lungs. Photo: File LONDON: A study by researchers at University College London (UCL) has warned of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggests the virus can lead to severe neurological complications, …
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WHO has denied assertions by Trump that it promoted Chinese “disinformation” about the virus. Photo: File NEW YORK: The United States will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) on July 6, 2021, whose coronavirus response has been criticised by President Donald Trump. Trump, who announced the decision over a month …
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More than a third of the world’s countries say they are at risk of running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Twenty-four out of those 73 nations have already reported …
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WHO says SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads primarily through small droplets expelled from the nose and mouth of an infected person. Photo: File GENEVA/CHICAGO: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it was reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus outlining evidence the …
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A large number of nurses staged a protest near the Sindh Chief Minister’s House at PIDC traffic intersection on Monday. They demanded that the government make payment of their outstanding salaries and regularise their services. The protesters attempted to march towards the CM House to present their demands to Chief …
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239 scientists in 32 countries outlined the evidence showing smaller particles can infect people. Photo: File More than 200 scientists have urged the World Health Organisation to revise its recommendations, after evidence that novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people, the New York Times reported on …
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The northwestern Spanish region of Galicia imposed restrictions on about 70,000 people on Sunday following a COVID-19 outbreak, a day after Catalonia also introduced a local lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. People living in A Marina along Spain’s northern coast in the province of Lugo will not …
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The approval of dozens of doctors’ resignation came amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with more than 230,000 infections and over 4,700 deaths recorded in Pakistan. Geo.tv/Illustration LAHORE: The Punjab government has accepted the resignation of 48 doctors at teaching hospitals across Punjab, a notification said. According to a notice by …
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In this regard, the global body has launched a campaign called ‘Pause’ to counter the excessive flow of false information regarding the disease. Photo: Geo.Tv/File The United Nations (UN) on Sunday has shared its apprehensions regarding the rampant spread of misinformation related to the novel coronavirus and has said that …
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WHO says it was ending the tests on the recommendation of the drug trial’s international steering committee. Photo: Reuters GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it was discontinuing its trials of the hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after the medicines failed to …
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