Coronavirus - PM Imran’s Covid-19 Test Result Awaited as Virus Deaths in Pakistan Cross 200 - Android
PM’s focal person on Covid-19 Dr Faisal Sultan announced on Tuesday that prime minister Imran Khan would undergo the coronavirus… Read More
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PM’s focal person on Covid-19 Dr Faisal Sultan announced on Tuesday that prime minister Imran Khan would undergo the coronavirus test as he had recently met philanthropist Faisal Edhi who later tested positive for the contagion.
Health authorities collected Imran Khan’s samples and the test result is awaited on Wednesday (today). The decision to perform the test was made as per the SOPs that mandate every contact of a confirmed Covid-19 case to undergo the test.
It is still unknown how Faisal Edhi got the virus, however, Imran Khan has since met a number of people including President Arif Alvi, ISI Chief, Lt. General Faiz Hameed, Jazz CEO Aamir Ibrahim, and Telenor CEO Irfan Wahab, to name a few.
On Tuesday, Edhi Foundation’s head Faisal Edhi announced that his coronavirus test had come positive. Talking to Shahzaib Khanzada on his show, Faisal informed that his first symptoms – head and body ache, fever, and upset stomach – appeared on Thursday, a couple of days after he met with PM Imran Khan to make a donation to the coronavirus fund.
Faisal said that he was in self-isolation and his symptoms had almost gone. He informed that he was away from his family in Karachi for over nine days, but still he asked them to isolate as a precautionary measure. His elder son, who had accompanied him to Islamabad, has also been tested for the virus.
Here are the latest updates:
A second wave of the coronavirus is expected to hit the United States next winter and could strike much harder than the first because it would likely arrive at the start of influenza season, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Tuesday.
“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” CDC Director Robert Redfield told the Washington Post in an interview.
As the current outbreak continues to taper off, as shown by a recent decline in hospitalization rates and other indicators, authorities need to prepare for a probable resurgence in the months ahead.
-Reuters
Nearly two dozen nurses from National Nurses United stood in protest outside the White House Tuesday, demanding more Personal Protective Equipment and a codification of protective standards as healthcare workers across the country find themselves underprepared on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis.
“We’re here because our colleagues are dying,” Erica Jones, a nurse at Washington Hospital Center in D.C., told NBC News. Jones stood silently Tuesday as the names of 50 nurses who died from COVID-19 were read aloud in the shadow of the White House.
-NBC
Conditional pillion riding was allowed in the port city on Wednesday as the provincial government planned to ease a lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Geo News reported.
According to reports, women were allowed to step out of their homes and pillion-ride on motorcycles under certain conditions. Police officials and other citizens were also seen pillion riding on the roads early Wednesday.
As the coronavirus pandemic bears down on vulnerable nations in Africa and South Asia, experts say there are only weeks to help fill chronic shortages of what medics need to help people breathe. Not ventilators, but oxygen itself.
Medical oxygen is a core component of the life-saving therapies hospitals are giving patients with severe cases of COVID-19, as the world waits for scientists to find vaccines and treatments.
The pandemic has pushed even the most advanced health systems to their limits, with concerns often focused on the supply of mechanical ventilators at the high-tech end of the breathing assistance spectrum.
But experts fear this has distorted the narrative about what constitutes an effective response, giving the wrong blueprint for nations with under-funded health systems.
-AFP
U.S. coronavirus deaths topped 45,000 on Tuesday doubling in a little over a week and rising by a near-record amount in a single day, according to a Reuters tally.
The United States has by far the world’s largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases at over 810,000, almost four times as many as Spain, the country with the second-highest number. Globally, cases topped 2.5 million on Tuesday.
U.S. deaths increased by more than 2,750 on Tuesday alone, just shy of a peak of 2,806 deaths in a single day on April 15.
-Reuters
Total #COVID19 cases in Punjab are 4,328. 1,602 are Non-Quarantined cases in different districts and remaining are in different quarantines. Sadly we'v lost 51 precious lives, while 724 patients have fully recovered
63395 tests have been conducted & random testing started in LHR
— Usman Buzdar (@UsmanAKBuzdar) April 21, 2020
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