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.
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Emmanuel Macron was advised that while the spread of the coronavirus is slowing down, the British variant will still cause aggravation for researchers studying the virus and for French citizens. France has extended closing its borders to countries outside of the EU unless travel is essential in a bid to slow down the infection rate. France has closed borders with the UK since December 20 in response to the new variant.
China is now using anal swabs to test for COVID-19
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
As cases spike, Chinese health care experts are reportedly using anal swabs to test for COVID 19. (NIAID-RML via AP)AP
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The Chinese recently made public their use of anal swabs to screen patients for COVID-19.
This new method of testing arrives as China is now seeing a surge in new coronavirus cases ahead of their annual Lunar New Year celebrations.
The Hill reports that Chinese health care professionals only perform the COVID-19 anal swab tests on patients who are considered high-risk. However, Forbes notes that some individual have been required to take a surprise anal test, including airline passengers who recently arrived in Beijing as well as over 1,000 children and teachers at a local school who were reportedly exposed to to the virus.
Romani doctor in Czech Republic will get vaccinated and is disturbed by COVID-19 disinformation
23.1.2021 10:36
Jakub Jarý (PHOTO: Petr Zewlakk Vrabec)
Jakub Jarý, a doctor in the Infectious Diseases Department of Masaryk Hospital in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic who is also a member of the Romani community, has given an online interview to ROMEA TV. As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, his profession is among the most necessary to society.
Along with other physicians, Jarý examines dozens of people suspected of having COVID-19 every day. He has been providing aid on the frontlines since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic.