KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 4,774 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight on Monday, bringing the total tally to 2,870,758, according to the health ministry. There are 152 new imported cases and 4,622 new local transmissions, showed data released on the ministry’s website. A further 13 deaths were reported from the pandemic, bringing the overall death […]
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Russia sees over 100,000 daily Covid cases for first time
Moscow: Russia reported more than 100,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time on Saturday as the country weathers a surge of infections driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant. A government Covid-19 portal registered 113,122 new cases over 24 hours, nearly double the number of daily infections just a week ago. The number of […]
1,842 new cases with seven deaths
LAHORE: As many as 1,842 new cases of coronavirus were reported and seven people died due to the pandemic in Punjab on Thursday. According to the data shared by a spokesperson for the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD), the number of cases in the province reached 469,586 while total number of deaths recorded […]
Pandemic leaves Mexican schoolchildren lagging behind
Mexico City: Nearly two years after the pandemic first shut her classroom, Mexican schoolgirl Elena Delgado is struggling to avoid falling far behind in her studies — like millions of other children around the world. Another wave of coronavirus infections gripping Mexico following the emergence of the highly contagious Omicron variant have forced the nine-year-old […]
Study suggests 50% of COVID-19 infected may have lasting loss of smell
ISLAMABAD: About 50 percent of people infected with Covid-19 during the first wave of infections in 2020 may have long-term and even permanent changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research from Sweden. From the early pandemic days, sudden loss of smell, or an impaired or distorted perception of odours, emerged as an […]
6500 more tested positive for Covid-19, 12 died during past 24 hours
ISLAMABAD: The national tally on Saturday of total active COVID-19 cases was recorded 63, 344 with 6,540 more people tested positive for the deadly virus while 12 people had died from the disease during the last 24 hours. All 12 corona patients died in the hospital during past 24 hours, according to the latest update […]
COVID-19 cases cross 10M mark in Africa
ADDIS ABABA: The COVID-19 infections in Africa have reached 10.4 million while the death toll stands at 235,507, according to the latest update by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The update stated that to date 9.3 million people have recovered from the infection on the continent of an estimated 1.37 billion people. […]
453 new corona cases reported in KP
PESHAWAR: The surge in the number of new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases continued in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 453 patients tested positive one confirmed and one died of the virus during last 24 hours. According to the Health Department, the total number of active cases in the province climbed to 1,833. Some 45 patients recovered from the […]
722 new cases of coronavirus reported in Punjab
LAHORE: As many as 722 cases of coronavirus were reported in the province on Saturday while two deaths were reported due to the pandemic in the last 24 hours. According to the data shared by the spokesperson for Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD), the number of coronavirus cases in the province reached 451,509 […]
Pakistan reports over 4000 new COVID cases; positivity ratio at 8.16%
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded over 4,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday, pushing the countrywide number to 1,320,120. A total of 52,522 samples were tested, out of which 4,286 turned out to be positive, showing the positivity rate of 8.16 per cent, up […]