Data shows cases have increased in children more rapidly compared to adults and elderly people. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: While experts are of mixed opinion about the UK variant of Covid-19 being more transmissible in children, data shows cases have increased in children more rapidly compared to adults and elderly people.
However, they say there are fewer chances in children to translate the infection into a disease.
A double variant virus has been reported in India which showed that the virus has continuously been mutating and can become more lethal.
On the other hand, record numbers of tests were conducted and cases reported in Pakistan since June 2020.
Pims, which is a tertiary care hospital and gets emergency patients from across the country, has started referring emergency patients out due to lack of beds. Photo by Muhammad Asim/File
ISLAMABAD: While hospitals are on the verge of saturation, the Covid-19 situation in the federal capital is worsening with each passing day.
The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has exhausted its capacity and patients even have to wait at the emergency centre to get a bed.
Pims, which is a tertiary care hospital and gets emergency patients from across the country, has started referring emergency patients out due to lack of beds.
A health worker receives a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, at the National Command and Operation Centre in Islamabad. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Despite efforts by the health department to expedite the process of vaccination and supply ample quantity of doses to the federal capital, only around 700 healthcare workers got themselves vaccinated against Covid-19 during the last two weeks.
Those who got the shots blamed National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and lack of awareness for the delay. Though 14 adult vaccination centres (AVCs) have been established in the capital, only six are functional.
In order to maintain a database and ensure the vaccine is administered only to healthcare workers, the government has made Nadra verification of those coming for vaccination mandatory. Besides hospitals, the centres have also been set up in different parts of the capital.
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