BEIJING: The first batch of Chinese coronavirus vaccination doses has reached Pakistan; Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan announced on Monday. China had promised to provide 500,000 doses of Covid-19 to Pakistan by January 31. Pakistan will start the vaccination drive this week. A vaccine nerve center has been […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Monday has congratulated the local authorities; For making the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) first province in Pakistan with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all provincial-domiciled citizens. According to details, the premier has taken to the social-networking website and posted, “40,000,000 residents covered with free health insurance in the province.” […]
Senior leader of Insaf Lawyers Wing (lawyers wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) Shahid Naseem Gondal died from the novel coronavirus on Saturday. Shahid Naseem Gondal was a famous Lawyer and chief law officer of the Capital Development Authority, Islamabad. Shahid Naseem Gondal contracting the coronavirus a month ago and was under treatment at a hospital in […]
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 […]
