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Low testing skews data as Covid fatigue sets in

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 positivity rate hits insane levels in some cities, government officials blame a decline in testing for skewed figures. They believe that both citizens and the health authorities have started taking the pandemic “as a normal disease” thanks to pandemic fatigue, an expected and natural response to …

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Resurgent Covid-19

AS if the country’s economic problems were not stressful enough, we now have to worry about resurgent Covid-19. According to the National Command and Operation Centre, new cases have risen to the highest in 80 days, with Karachi and Hyderabad now reporting positivity rates of above 10pc — a level which, in …

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Deaths from Covid-19 related hunger can exceed the number of fatalities from the virus itself, warns Oxfam

Poverty

Oxfam warned, “Poverty and hunger can cause more deaths than for coronavirus as it has killed more than 549,000 people worldwide.”Oxfam, an international confederation of 20 non-governmental organizations that work to eliminate hunger and poverty said in a press release that COVID-19 related huger can kill 12,000 people per.According to …

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