Flu Emergency Room Visits Surge Across the USA

Emergency room visits for influenza have reached “very high” levels across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This year’s flu season, which aligns closely with the 2019-2020 timeline, has caused a significant spike in cases, particularly in Western states. Health systems nationwide are closely monitoring the situation as …

New Study Reveals Link Between Long COVID and Blood Proteins

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently investigated an unexpected relationship between lingering COVID-19 symptoms and specific proteins in the blood. They likened COVID-19 to an uninvited guest, as it behaves similarly to party crashers who overstayed their welcome. Their study aims to shed light on why COVID-19 continues to affect many individuals long after …

WHO Reports Increase of Covid Cases in China

China has been battling Covid for more than two years now and still the struggle is in process. It is reported that the number of hospitalization has increased at a larger and more rapid pace in the last week. World Health Organization (WHO) reported that hospitals in China are overflowing with Covid cases but the …

Saudi Arabia Decides to Lift Restrictions for Hajj

Hajj is a sacred form of worship in which Muslims from all over the world visit Makkah and perform Hajj. Muslims are required to perform Hajj once in their lifetime. Every year, millions of Muslims visit Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. However, the situation changed after the pandemic as Saudi Arabia curbed the number of …

China Opens Up the Financial Markets

World’s second-largest economy, China has decided to enter a new phase after curbing the zero covid policy it placed on a population of 1.4 billion people. The state media of the Communist party’s newspaper suggests that China is preventing the spread of covid infections admirably. China’s capital Beijing has also dropped all quarantine policies and …

WHO warns of New ‘Kraken’ XBB.15 Covid variant

Last night, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for Covid, issued a warning that the variation is raising concerns among physicians. We are concerned about its growing advantage, especially in several nations in Europe and the US, and especially in the Northeast region of the US, where XBB.1.5 has quickly displaced other circulating varieties. …

WHO Shows Concern Over China’s Covid Plight

China has witnessed a surge in Coronavirus variant cases but after the Chinese government scraped off the zero covid policy, there is no date to show the number of infections. The whole world including the World Health Organization (WHO) shows concern over the number of infections in China because the funeral homes and death reports …

Omicron Cases Detected in Karachi

The era of coronavirus is not over yet as new variants keep emerging and threatening national health. New omicron variants have been detected in Karachi, Pakistan. The National Institute of Health (NIH) revealed that six omicron cases are detected in Karachi and the variants are XBB and XBB.1. These new cases have taken the tally …

Covid Wave Gets Stronger in China

China is witnessing a severity in Covid cases but as China has abandoned the zero covid policy, therefore the Chinese government is not showing and reporting new covid infections. This decision to scrape off zero covid policy has received a lot of scrutiny from the International community. However, China made this decision because the people …

France to Test Arrivals from China for Covid

France has started the process of testing arrivals from China for potential Covid variants. China has recently decided to scrape off the zero-covid policy because of immense protests from the citizens against the covid restrictions that made their lives miserable and contained. Due to this decision, China has stopped keeping track of new Covid infections. …

China Decides to Stop Publishing Covid Statistics

Every other country has recovered from Covid somehow but China still struggles with Covid repercussions with people getting infected daily at a rapid pace. However, now the National Health Commission (NHC) of China has decided to not publish details regarding Covid statistics, the number of people getting infected, and the death tolls. NHC stated, “From …

WHO Shows Concern as Chinese Hospitals Fill Up

China is witnessing another wave of coronavirus during the Christmas holiday season and the sources suggest that Chinese hospitals are filling up with covid infected patients. Also, the reports suggest that ICUs in China are filling up rapidly but the mortality rate is quite low, and China reported no deaths on Wednesday. World Health Organization …

Scientists Take on Colds in Winter

Scientists studied flu in winter and concluded that cold air damages the immune response in the nose Whenever winters arrive, people become happy for the chilly and peaceful nights but they start dreading the common cold and flu that comes along. Scientists have been studying for a long time regarding the cause of flu and …

China Returns to Normal After Policy Reversal

The world’s second-biggest economy returns to normal as Xi Jinping’s government reverses the zero-covid policy China has been dealing with high covid cases for a long time, so the Chinese government installed a zero-covid policy to eradicate covid. Under this policy, Xi Jinping’s government tried every possible way to control the spreading covid cases through …

China Relaxes Covid Restrictions After Protests

After dealing with violent protests from Chinese citizens, the Chinese government has decided to ease Covid restrictions Xi Jinping’s government mentioned that they will maintain the zero Covid policy for China but things changed as citizens protested against Covid restrictions. During lockdown in Urumqi, a residential building caught fire that killed 10 people. Because of …

China’s Restrictions Not Only Limited to Covid

The protests happening all over China have died down as the Police patrol the street and check people’s phones Protests erupted all over China against the Covid restrictions and lockdown installed by the Xi Jinping government. However, they gained intensity when a residential building caught fire in Urumqi, killing 10 people. People of China blamed …

China Records High Covid Cases After Protests

China is facing nationwide protests because of coronavirus curbs but that resulted in record-high Covid cases China records 31,000 new Covid cases with 3000 people who are showing symptoms. The report suggests that this increase in Covid cases is due to the protests that have been happening all over China against the Covid restrictions and …

Protests Across China Spread Amidst Covid Restrictions

Protests have spread all across China against the Covid restrictions after 10 people died in a fire in the northwest region of Urumqi Recently, in the northwest region of Urumqi, a residential building caught fire, and the fire killed almost ten people. Covid has been increasing at a rapid pace again in China, due to …

PM Shahbaz Sharif Gets Infected with Covid Again

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif gets diagnosed with Covid again for the third time as informed by the information minister. Pakistani information minister Maryam Aurangzeb announced through her Twitter handle regarding the condition of Premier Shahbaz Sharif. She informed through Twitter that Premier had been unwell for two days and today he conducted the Covid test …

China Still Continues to Struggle with Covid

The world’s second largest economy, China is still struggling with Covid as it witnesses the largest Covid infections since April The world did not get rid of Covid and the country where Covid originated still suffers from it and continues to battle it. The ever rising infections are taking a toll on country’s economy because …

China’s Trade Takes a Jolt and Shrinks

China’s trade shrinks unexpectedly as Covid curbs, suffers economic slowdown China’s economy paints a struggling picture at the moment as the country’s imports and exports get contracted. China is still recovering from the Covid situation at home and with the recession on the way, China’s policymakers need to think a lot about their plans. The …

Pakistan reports the lowest COVID positivity rate since 2020

For the first time since the government began gathering statistics on the epidemic in March last year, Pakistan’s COVID-19 positive rate fell to 0.94 percent on Tuesday. Pakistan has continuously reported a coronavirus positive rate of less than 2% and less than 1,000 daily infections over the previous three weeks. Hospitalizations and daily mortality counts …

K-Electric Launches Mobile Health Vaccination Units

Karachi: Committed to supporting the fight against COVID-19, K-Electric has launched a fleet of Mobile Health Vaccination Units to facilitate access to vaccines in communities across Karachi and its adjoining areas. These Mobile Health Vaccination Units are a collaboration between the Government of Sindh, K-Electric, and HANDS, a leading non-profit organization in Pakistan. The fleet …

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