60 pc beds for Covid patients in pvt hospitals, govt directs
Dr Ajay Chakraborty, director of health services (DHS), has directed the managements of private health care units to implement the move immediately.
Dr Ajay Chakraborty, director of health services (DHS), has directed the managements of private health care units to implement the move immediately.
To this, 50 per cent participants said that they want bubble flights from impacted countries suspended while 41 per cent sought mandatory 14-day quarantine for arriving passengers.
According to them, any study should not be referred to till it confirms the final outcome and the results cannot be assured till researchers themselves share the final report.
Of the imported cases, six were reported in Shanghai, five in Tianjin, two in Fujian and one each in Shanxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shaanxi, the commission said.
"While the findings need to be validated with larger groups of patients, they could have important implications for treating and studying this disease," said study author Douglas Fraser from the Lawson Health Research Institute in Canada.
The country has seen a slight increase in daily COVID-19 cases since it lifted restrictions on June 1.
Tuesday also saw 76 new cases of COVID-19 detected by PCR tests, compared to 40 registered in the previous 24-hour period, taking the total number to 244,328.
The number of recoveries rose to 15,250, with 63 new recoveries, while the number of active cases reached 3,019, the highest since May 18.
Pakistan has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of confirmed cases since the government lifted a weeks-long lockdown across the country last month, saying that 25 per cent of the country's total population was facing harsh financial constraints due to lockdown.
As of Wednesday, it stands at 50,61,332. In the last 24 hours, ICMR has tested 1,45,216 samples and has continued to ramp up the testing capacity for detecting the Novel Coronavirus in the infected persons.
