The 12-month inquiry singled out Australia’s initial lack of urgency in distributing Covid-19 vaccines, with then-prime minister Scott Morrison at one point declaring the rollout “not a race”. Australia imposed some of the world’s most stringent restrictions during the pandemic, effectively sealing international borders for two years and locking down major cities for months on […]
In an update dated Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration’s change in recommendation comes even as Moderna and Novavax makers of two of the three COVID vaccines submitted their applications to the agency for updating the fall 2024 season shots with the JN.1 strain. Novavax had said its manufacturing is underway for a JN.1 vaccine […]
With the goal of reducing the number of people exposed to COVID-19 and immunizing the country’s workforce, Italy has become the first European country to make COVID-19 health permits mandatory. The Italian government passed new legislation on Thursday that mandates digital immunization certificates for all employees across the country. The health pass is often known […]
For the second time in a week; rabies death has been reported at the Indus Hospital in Karachi. Last week, a 6-year-old boy died from the lethal virus and this Tuesday, a 24-year-old man succumbed to rabies. Moreover, A report from the Pakistani news source; states “the patients received improper and inadequate treatment at government […]
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Sunday apprised; that a special Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight airlifted over 1.55 million doses of SinoVac Covid vaccine from China. The NCOC informed that the special consignment of the SinoVac vaccine of 1.55 million doses; had arrived at Islamabad International Airport through a special PIA flight; […]
On Monday 31st May 2021, Asad Umar said that after the NCOC meeting, it has been decided to start covid vaccination of people aged 18 plus from 3rd June 2021. Asad Umar said that Federal Government is vaccinating people 18 plus, free of cost. On 29th May, around 0.3 million people were vaccinated, while 10.1 […]
In a major achievement, Pakistan has successfully manufactured a COVID vaccine locally at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad, according to local news sources. Overall 124,000 doses of single-dose Covid CanSino vaccine were manufactured at the NIH; and would be available for use from the next week. “The vaccine was prepared by Pakistani experts […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had asked the Pakistan Army to assist the police and law enforcement agencies in enforcing SOPs for curbing the spread of the coronavirus, warning that Pakistan may soon be facing a situation similar to India if the current trend continues. Addressing the nation after a meeting of the National […]
The US, EU, and South Africa have decided to suspend the use of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) Coronavirus vaccine as a precautionary measure after many recipients in the US suffered rare blood clots in the days that followed. According to details, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that 6 out of 6.8 […]
The first flight where passengers and crew were both fully-vaccinated flight took off on Tuesday from Qatar in a historical step towards the full return of air travel. The flight, which took off on a Qatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 from Doha’s Hamad International Airport at about 11 a.m. local time and returned to the city […]
