Corona

Close to 1,000 cases of a potentially fatal 'flesh-eating' disease have been reported in Japan this year.

The health department ensures its daily vaccination performance meets the target

Sindh government’s corona vaccination drive has been stalled over reported delay in the payment of salaries.

Hospital says patient isolated at home, doing well; no further cases detected so far

Genome sequencing of virus sample in progress, patient discharged and isolating at home

Health authorities to immunise citizens at their doorsteps in all 36 districts

Express unwillingness to register themselves citing fear of being admitted in coronavirus wards

Doctors say pressure mounting on government health facilities, all markets to remain closed

School teachers and air travellers to be vaccinated by Aug 1

Anti-Covid jabs being administered by Punjab health dept

Actor has urged everyone who had come in close contact with him to get tested as well

Describing Indian variant as 'double or triple mutant' a misnomer, says Dr Sebastian Maurer-Stroh

Ayesha Omar, Adnan Siddiqui and ZQ shared their thoughts on Twitter

Whatever Javed Latif was made to say has caused anger among the masses, says Fawad Chaudhry

Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip is expected to remain at the hospital for a few days for observation

The active cases in the country total to 24,483; 41 deaths in the past 24 hours

No patient is currently on vent in AJK, GB, Balochistan; 56 deaths in the past 24 hours

Grade nine to 12 resume classes following a decision by the authorities last week

NCOC chief says federal govt has from the beginning maintained it does not have monopoly over import of vaccines

Punjab records the highest number of deaths during the past 24 hours, followed by Sindh

Gilani shared the good news a week after his 'Sabaat' co-star Usman Mukhtar tested negative for the virus

After 'Sabaat' lead Usman Mukhtar, co-star Gilani has also fallen prey to the virus

In her post to 15.4 m followers, Madonna claimed that a Covid-19 vaccine has been available for months

The actor took to Instagram to urge people to stay home as Covid-19 cases climb in Pakistan

The rendition of the song is meant to raise donations for frontliners

The 8-year-old reached out to Hanks when the actor was diagnosed with coronavirus

The singer pointed out the struggles of session artistes in these testing times

Fears that contact tracing apps may become a permanent tool for govts are holding some people back from using them

Hospitals are turning to robots to tirelessly rid room, halls and door handles of viruses and bacteria

Multi-billion-dollar streaming platform Quibi also aims to keep users coming back with daily news and sports

Parents wanted names to be 'memorable and unique' after boy and girl born during lockdown in India

Google has also launched Bolo, a speech-based reading app that uses machine learning to help children

People are offering to pick up groceries, medicine for neighbors forced to stay home due to the coronavirus pandemic

Many of the companies have already taken steps to support customers during the crisis

So far, AFP has debunked almost 200 rumors and myths, but experts say stronger action from tech companies is needed

Zeeshan Parvez, Fasi Zaka, Sarmad Ghafoor and Humayoon Khan have collaborated on this short film

Insiders lament cancelled shows, poor state of the industry overall

Adam Mosseri and his team face immense pressure to keep their servers up and running

Developers Mohammad Aleem, Rahul Raj hope to expand their COVID-19 research with govt help

Careem said it has taken the step keeping in mind the safety and well-being of its clientele

An antiviral treatment called remdesivir is already in the final stages of clinical trials in Asia

Test for the virus that causes COVID-19 can operate on Cepheid’s more than 23,000 GeneXpert Systems globally

Netflix said it will remove the highest bandwidth streams within each resolution category for next 30 days in Europe

Quarantined people are less prone to dangers of coronavirus than to dangers of unhygienic living conditions

In light of COVID-19 outbreak Google Doodle recognizes Dr Ignaz Semmelweis

A researcher at Oxford University said misinformation could hamper efforts to control spread of the coronavirus

The actor posted a video of her washing hands as part of WHO's Safe Hands Challenge

The producer made the announcement following the growing COVID-19 concerns

Alibaba co-founder also said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million masks to the US

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