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Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s success at managing the coronavirus pandemic – with relatively low rates of severe disease and death – and distrust of government-led and foreign-funded public health initiatives has driven vaccine hesitancy, which could put the country’s fragile gains against COVID-19 at risk, say experts and officials.
Since the pandemic began, Pakistan, a country of 220 million people, has registered more than 586,000 cases of the virus, with 13,128 deaths, as per government data.
Its current case-fatality rate of 2.2 percent is comparable to countries such as France and Canada – and is slightly higher than the United States – but is extremely low when its very low rate of testing is accounted for.
Dogs lie lifeless after authorities culled them in Karachi s Saddar area. ─ Photo by Syeda Rabab Jaffer/File
KARACHI: While the province has been seeing a surge in the number of dog bite cases over the years, causing immeasurable human sufferings and increasing hostility against the poor animal in society, the provincial government seems to be in no hurry to make uniform local government byelaws under which officials would be required to provide protection from stray animals and ensure their humane handling, sources told
Dawn on Sunday.
The government ‘indifference’, they said, had also led the municipalities to continue with their brutal mass culling practices as means to curb canine population and incidence of their attacks.
Karachi
February 6, 2021
Leading infectious diseases’ experts and vaccinologists have warned that herd immunity against the coronavirus cannot be achieved globally without vaccinating children, arguing that vaccinating the adults may prevent mortality, but the transmissibility of the virus would continue in the unvaccinated populations, especially children.
They said studies to vaccinate children are underway although these studies started very late. They made it clear that the transmission of the virus will not stop even by vaccinating 70 per cent of the adult populations globally.
“We may not be able to achieve herd immunity globally unless we vaccinate children as they are both in the numerator as well as in the denominator. We might be able to reduce mortality if don’t vaccinate children, but we will not be able to reduce transmissibility unless children are also vaccinated,” said Dr Saad B. Omer, the inaugural director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, while
Stray dog caught in a net for the Trap, Neuter and Release programme in Karachi | White Star
Opposite the Republic Monument on Taksim Square is one of Istanbul’s furry tourist attractions a large Turkish Kungal that has made the last aisle in Watson, a store, its favourite napping spot. As passing tourists take pictures with or of it, depending on their comfort with dogs, a green tag catches their attention an accessory that seems to be a must-have with canines who call the streets of Istanbul their home.
But this store isn’t the only space that welcomes strays. Cats and dogs alike can be seen strolling in and out of cafes, around the Hagia Sofia Square and even the royal palace. The city’s strays around 160,000 cats and 130,000 dogs are vaccinated, sterilised, marked and tracked by the government and NGOs.