Tag: Coronavirus outbreak

Draconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing “unchecked powers” to authoritarian regimes across Asia, human rights experts are warning. In a report out today, privacy analysts warn that “extreme measures and unchecked powers” brought in to tackle Covid-19 could become permanent features of government across the ...

As India’s surging coronavirus caseload becomes an increasing worry for the globe, another health disaster is silently unfolding. The world’s strictest lockdown crippled both routine and critical health services. More than a million children have missed crucial immunizations and hospital births have shown a sharp decline, indicating many women ...

Public trust in vaccine safety is slowly growing in Europe even as it dips in parts of Asia and Africa, AFP reports, with researchers calling for more investment in health information campaigns for the forthcoming Covid-19 vaccine. The largest ever global survey of vaccine confidence, published in the Lancet ...

Thousands of people urgently require emergency shelter and aid after a fire destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos. As the Athens government declared a state of emergency and a delegation of officials rushed to the north-eastern Aegean island, the sheer scale of devastation wrought ...

OTTAWA -- An opportunity to test a potential COVID-19 vaccine in Canadian clinical trials is now "over" because Chinese customs did not approve it for shipment to Canada, according to the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC confirmed to CTV News on Thursday that CanSino Biologics "does not have ...

Black and minority ethnic people trusted government scientists and public health officials less than white people did at the height of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak, according to a study that raises fresh questions about the pandemic’s disproportionate impact. BAME people were more likely to believe their employers’ advice than ...

Seroprevalence studies are carried out with an objective to assess as to what percentage of population has developed protective immunity (antibodies) to the virus.Almost 11 per cent Pakistanis have developed protective immunity against the novel coronavirus that has claimed 6,219 lives and infected 291,588 people across the country, a ...

- Among the quorum of Coronavirus in the world, all the countries are working day and night to make Covid-19 Vaccine. In this episode, Pakistan is now going to trial the third phase of the Corona vaccine (Covid 19 Vaccine Trial). According to the report, Pakistan has completed two ...

Countries led by women had “systematically and significantly better” Covid-19 outcomes, research appears to show, locking down earlier and suffering half as many deaths on average as those led by men. The relative early success of leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel, New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen, ...

Here are the State-wise quarantine regulations:1. Andaman and Nicobar IslandsHealth Screening:· Thermal screening will be done for all passengers.· COVID-19 test will be done on random basis.Quarantine:1. Symptomatic passengers shall be tested and shall be required to go for Institutional Quarantine till the test results are available.2. All passenger ...