Latest in: Coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan
Pakistan will ban air travel for anyone without a COVID-19 vaccine certificate from August 1 and will require all public sector...
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Pakistan has become one of the first few countries outside the developed world to produce homemade COVID-19 vaccine “PakVac”,...June 6, 2021
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Pakistan has finally okayed its first indigenously developed intensive care unit ventilator as the country recorded the highest number...April 29, 2021
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Will Pakistan and India choose to be allies in the post-COVID world?
Akbar Ahmed, Pawan Bali It is a more recent tale of two letters: On Pakistan’s 70th National Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi penned a note to his Pakistani counterpart, expressing the desire for a...April 25, 2021 650 0 -
Pakistan voices solidarity as COVID deaths soar in India
India continues to face record numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths as a torrid wave of the coronavirus pandemic tested the limits of its healthcare system. In the last three days, India, the second worst-hit country...April 24, 2021 605 0 -
Pakistani scientists develop AI to detect COVID-19 within a minute
Pakistan has developed a software-based on artificial intelligence that can help detect COVID-19 inside a minute. The revelation was made on Science Diplomacy Pakistan, a web page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that serves as a platform...November 22, 2020 913 0 -
American, Pakistani universities launch study on how two countries respond to COVID-19
The United States and Pakistan may be oceans apart, and the COVID-19 may be impacting the two nations differently. But they are dealing with the same common invisible threat. And that set of contrasts and similarities...July 29, 2020 1700 0 -
Plasma Transfusion Treatment for COVID-19 in Pakistan – Hope and Caution
Can transfusion of plasma from the body of a person who has recovered from COVID-19, be a magical cure for averting coronavirus infection? There is still very little empirical evidence to prove this proposition, one way...June 27, 2020 1043 0 -
Pakistan to use dexamethasone to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients
Pakistan will use dexamethasone to treat critical novel coronavirus patients after researchers in the United Kingdom announced that the inexpensive and widely available steroid cuts the risk of death. The World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed...June 19, 2020 922 1 -
In reality check, Pakistan reimposes lockdown to contain coronavirus spread
Pakistan‘s government has decided to seal selected areas of various cities from Monday night to help check the spread of the coronavirus as the number of infected people in this part of the world is feared...June 15, 2020 770 0
