LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar formally inaugurated Pakistan’s first Corona Telemedicine Web Portal and Corona

JEDDAH : Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suspended prayers inside all but the holiest two mosques in Islam as the kingdom steps up efforts to

KABUL: Dozens of Afghan patients held in isolation, including at least one confirmed to have the coronavirus, escaped from a quarantine facility

KARACHI: The health authorities in Sindh said on Monday the total number of Coronavirus cases had jumped to 150 from 35 on Sunday after

NIGERIA: Nigeria reported the first new coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday, as global stock markets tanked on deepening fears of a

GENEVA: It would be a “fatal mistake” for any country to assume it will not be hit by the new coronavirus, and rich countries that might have

TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday ordered the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres after a coronavirus outbreak that has killed five

A special government committee, led by Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat, forwarded the latest medical reports of former prime minister Nawaz

TEHRAN/BEIJING: Fresh cases of coronavirus were Friday reported across the Middle East, with the Iranian authorities confirming the

LAHORE: The Human Organ Transplant Agency (HOTA) on Wednesday recommended to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to register a

SHANGHAI: Doctors in Shanghai are using infusions of blood plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus to treat those still

CHINA: The death toll from China's virus epidemic neared 1,400 on Friday, as the United States complained of a “lack of transparency” from Beijing

The WHO decided to name the virus COVID-19 in keeping with guidelines aimed to avoid linking a disease to an animal or a geographic location.

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that confirmed cases of coronavirus being transmitted by people who have never travelled to China could be the “tip of the iceberg”.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus surged past 1000 in mainland China on Monday, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic,

Scientists from the United States to Australia are using new technology in an ambitious, multi-million-dollar drive to develop a vaccine in record time to tackle China’s coronavirus

ISLAMABAD: The Chinese Embassy on Sunday assured Pakistan that it had a "full understanding " of the situation the Pakistani students in Wuhan and Hubei

CHINA: A Chinese doctor who issued an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak before it was officially recognised died of the virus on Friday,

The health ministry on Wednesday maintained that flight operations to and from China continue as per normal routine. In a statement,

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Dr Zafar Mirza said on Monday that Pakistan