ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported 270 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours at a positivity rate of 1.6 per cent, ARY News reported on Sunday, quoting the National Institute of Health (NIH).
According to statistics issued by the National Institute of Health (NIH), 270 new coronavirus cases were recorded during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, three more patients succumbed to the virus during the same period.
COVID-19 Statistics 28 August 2022 Total Tests in Last 24 Hours: 16,871 Positive Cases: 270 Positivity %: 1.60% Deaths: 03 Patients on Critical Care: 118
Following the detection of new cases, the COVID-19 positivity rate was recorded at 1.60 per cent. Moreover, 16,871 Covid-19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours while 118 patients were in critical care.
It is pertinent to mention here that a total of over 1.5 million Covid-19 cases have been reported in Pakistan so far, while the total number of coroanvirus-related deaths has reached 30,569.
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More than 5,600 people filed discrimination complaints last year — and 37 percent of those cases were of discrimination in the workplace, a report by Germany's anti-discrimination agency says.
Since 2019, the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency publishes annual reports about its activities.
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More than 2,000 cases of racist discrimination were reported in Germany last year, according to a new report by the country’s top anti-discrimination agency.
The country’s anti-discrimination commissioner, Ferda Ataman, said the figures are alarming and called for stronger legal measures.
“People in Germany still experience discrimination every day, especially in the job market and in everyday business and when looking for accommodation, and sometimes by public authorities or on the street," Ataman said.
“I also want people to know their rights and that discrimination is illegal. I want to make the German Equality Law better known and show how discrimination can be specifically prevented,” she added.
According to the report, over 5,600 people filed discrimination complaints, 37 percent of those cases were of discrimination in the workplace.
Some 9 percent of those complaints were filed by people who experienced discrimination or disadvantages due to their religion.
The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency offers consultation to people who in their professional or private lives have experienced discrimination on grounds of their ethnic origin, religion, belief, sexual identity, age, disability or their gender.
To meet a significant increase in enquiries, the Anti-Discrimination Agency set up a service centre last year to provide new and expanded telephone consultation services.
"It is very important to me that we can better help affected people in Germany,” Ataman said.
"We also notice from the results of our study that the law that we have at the moment does not always help enough, unfortunately the anti-discrimination agency only has the opportunity to make a legal assessment," she added.
Ataman said "the current anti-discrimination law is very weak, people have to go to court alone if they want to go to court."
"But what we can do as an anti-discrimination body is we can ask for a statement from the employer, or from the other person involved, we can try to help them reach a settlement, but in order to take legal action, people have to make that decision themselves and, for now, we can only give them a legal opinion,” she added.
Since 2019, the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency publishes annual reports about its activities.
Announcement is billed to help bolster response to the outbreak that has infected more than 6,600 Americans, around a quarter of them from New York state.
Announcement frees federal funding and resources to fight virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of body.
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The United States has declared a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the outbreak of monkeypox that already has infected more than 6,600 Americans.
"We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus," Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra said in a call on Thursday.
The declaration, which is initially effective for 90 days but can be renewed, came as nationwide cases topped 6,600, around a quarter of them from New York state.
Experts believe the real number could be much higher in the current outbreak since the symptoms can be subtle, including single lesions.
The announcement frees federal funding and resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of the body.
The declaration comes as the the Biden administration has faced criticism over the pace of vaccine availability for monkeypox.
Clinics in major cities like New York and San Francisco say they haven't received enough of the two-shot vaccine to meet demand and some have had to stop offering the second dose of the vaccine to ensure the supply of first doses.
The US has so far delivered some 600,000 JYNNEOS vaccines –– originally developed against monkeypox's related virus, smallpox –– but this number figure is still far short of the approximately 1.6 million people considered at highest risk and who need the vaccine most.
The monkeypox virus spreads through prolonged and close skin-to-skin contact, including hugging, cuddling and kissing, as well as sharing bedding, towels and clothing.
But health officials emphasise that the virus can infect anyone.
The announcement comes three days after the Biden administration named top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the monkeypox outbreak.
The US declaration comes after the World Health Organization also designated the outbreak an emergency last month –– something it reserves for diseases of highest concern.
North Korea said earlier this month it was on a path to "finally defuse" its first publicly declared coronavirus crisis even as Asian neighbours experience a resurgence in infections driven by Omicron subvariants.
The official KCNA news agency says 99.99% of its 4.77 million fever patients since late April have fully recovered, but because of an apparent lack of testing, it has not released any figures on people who tested positive for the virus.
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North Korea has not reported any fever cases for the first time in more than two months since it confirmed its first Covid-19 infections in May.
"There were no new fever patients reported" over a 24-hour period from Thursday evening, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Saturday, marking the first time the isolated country had reported no new cases since it began tallying numbers in May.
While it has maintained a rigid coronavirus blockade since the start of the pandemic, experts have said that massive Omicron outbreaks in neighbouring countries meant it was only a matter of time before Covid snuck in.
North Korea has recorded nearly 4.8 million infections since late April, KCNA said, adding "99.994 percent" of them had fully recovered with just 204 patients under treatment.
Apparently due to a lack of testing capacity, North Korea refers to "fever patients" rather than "Covid patients" in case reports.
The country has one of the world's worst healthcare systems, with poorly-equipped hospitals, few intensive care units, and no Covid-19 treatment drugs or mass testing ability, experts say.
Pyongyang announced its first coronavirus cases on May 12 and activated a "maximum emergency epidemic prevention system", with leader Kim Jong Un putting himself front and centre of the government's response.
North Korea has not vaccinated any of its roughly 25 million people, having rejected jabs offered by the World Health Organisation.
The North said in late May it started seeing "progress" in controlling the outbreak but experts have cast doubts on the claim, citing the country's crumbling health infrastructure and unvaccinated population.
There have been widespread outside doubts about the accuracy of North Korean statistics as its reported fatalities are too low and its daily fever cases have been plummeting too fast recently.
There were three reported cases on Friday and 11 on Thursday — from a peak of about 400,000 a day in May.
WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said last month he assumed the situation in North Korea was "getting worse not better", though he acknowledged Pyongyang had provided very limited information.
South Korea previously offered to send vaccines and other medical aid to the North to help it deal with its coronavirus outbreak. Pyongyang has not officially responded.
The State reported 599 COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.
The cumulative tally increased to 23,30,404 and the recoveries stand at 23,13,038 with 468 patients recovering in the past day. However, the number of active cases has come down to 2,633.
