Several batches of ice cream produced in north China tested positive for coronavirus, authorities. Several thousand suspected products have seized and people who may have encountered released products traced. The contaminated ice cream manufactured by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Company. The north Tianjin municipality has sealed and contained the company’s products after three samples tested positive […]
Brazil’s health regulator has granted emergency approval to two COVID-19 vaccines as the country gears up for a mass inoculation campaign during a devastating second wave of the pandemic. The Anvisa regulator on Sunday approved vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech and Britain’s AstraZeneca for emergency use in Brazil, which has recorded more than 209,000 deaths […]
Indonesia will begin its nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program on January 13; with President Joko Widodo set to be given the first jab, made by China’s Sinovac Biotech. The mass inoculation program will begin in the capital, Jakarta; Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced on Tuesday; while vaccinations in other regions will follow on January […]
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), and National Information Technology Board (NITB) has developed a National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) to ensure efficient supply chain management and administration of the Covid-19 vaccine. However, the system will enable automated phase-wise registration of […]
Pakistan on Tuesday reported its first confirmed cases of a new coronavirus strain detected in the United Kingdom earlier this year. According to the Sindh health department, 12 samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the Covid virus in the first […]
Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), welcome news to a nation with a staggering Covid-19 death toll of over 307,000 lives lost. Millions of doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be added to the US rollout; which […]
The Ministry of National Health Services refuted media reports that it had allowed the private sector to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for those individuals that can afford to pay for them. Earlier today, a report published, quoted a statement issued by the health ministry as stating that the government had given permission to the private sector […]
Four People Given the New COVID Vaccine in Clinical Trials Developed Bell’s Palsy. Should You Be Worried? Here’s what to know about the condition, which causes temporary facial paralysis, and if a link has established to the new vaccine. Pfizer Vaccine A document released on December 8, ahead of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products […]
South Africa cricket team will tour Pakistan early next year after a period of 14 years to play two ICC World Test Championship fixtures and three Twenty20 Internationals, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday. The Proteas will first come to Karachi on January 16; where they will start the tour off with the […]
ISLAMABAD: A Christian girl was reported to have been killed in Rawalpindi after her parents rejected a marriage proposal sent by a Muslim man, named Shehzad. Officers from the Koral Police Station claimed on Sunday to have arrested an accused named Faizan; whereas raids were being carried out to arrest the prime suspect, Shehzad. The […]
