As many as 182 news pneumonia cases have been reported from Lahore during one day.
Pneumonia Outbreak: Five More Lives Lost, 717 New Cases in Punjab. Pneumonia claimed the lives of five more children while 717 new cases were reported across the province during 24 hours.
According to a health department report on Wednesday, five more children fall prey to infectious pneumonia and with recent death toll during the ongoing year has claimed to 410.
As many as 182 news pneumonia cases have been reported from Lahore during one day but no death was reported. As many as 65 children have died of pneumonia in Lahore during the ongoing year.
During the ongoing year, 30,320 pneumonia cases were reported across Punjab while 6,620 cases were from Lahore.
More than half the world faces high measles risk: WHO
More than half the countries around the world will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday.
Measles cases have been increasing across most regions mainly due to missed vaccinations during the COVID-19 years when health systems were overwhelmed and fell behind on routine vaccinations for preventable diseases.
“What we are worried about is this year, 2024, we’ve got these big gaps in our immunisation programmes and if we don’t fill them really quickly with the vaccine, measles will just jump into that gap,” the WHO’s Natasha Crowcroft, a Senior Technical Adviser on Measles and Rubella, told a Geneva press briefing.
“We can see, from data that’s produced with WHO data by the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), that more than half of all the countries in the world are going to be at high or very high risk of outbreaks by the end of this year.”
She called for urgent action to protect children, saying there was a “lack of commitment” by governments given competing issues like economic crises and conflict.
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Measles is a highly contagious, airborne virus that mostly affects children under five years old. It can be prevented by two doses of measles vaccine and more than 50 million deaths have been averted since 2000, according to the WHO.
Cases last year were already up 79 per cent to over 300,000, according to WHO data, thought to represent just a fraction of the total.Outbreaks have been reported in all WHO regions wi
