Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told a local news channel. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian detained in December 2016 after arriving in Cairo from Doha on vacation, was held on […]
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is the second submitted for full approval in Brazil after AstraZeneca applied on January 29 for the vaccine it created with Oxford University. That vaccine is being manufactured in Brazil in partnership with the federally funded Fiocruz biomedical center. Brazil has already approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Chinese-developed SinoVac shots […]
Pfizer Inc has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told the local news agency on Friday. The United States company; which was the first drugmaker to apply for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in India; had a meeting […]
During a media talk in Islamabad on 4 February 2021, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM)on health Dr. Faisal Sultan talked about the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine which started being administered in Pakistan during this week. While talking to the media, Dr. Faisal sultan asserted that the Sinopharm vaccine is suitable for people aged from 18-60. […]
The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots in a world first. Thousands of variants have been documented as the virus mutates, including the so-called British, South African, […]
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain is in the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Britain. Apparently, after contracting Covid-19, it emerged on Monday. Hussain, who is living in the UK in self-imposed exile since 1991; in an audio message released through his party’s social media channels on Saturday (Jan 30) stated […]
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 […]
Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short an important ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported on Saturday, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. Vietnam, a country of some 98 million people that has so far been highly successful in combatting the virus; has recorded 180 new […]
Uk is banning direct passenger flights to and from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Friday, shutting down the world’s busiest international airline route from Dubai to London. Britain said it was adding the UAE, Burundi, and Rwanda to its coronavirus travel ban list; because of worries over the spread of a more contagious and […]
Bangladesh has started its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the capital Dhaka, with plans to administer more than 30 million doses over the next few months. The first batch of people received the first shot of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at Dhaka’s Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday.“We have vaccinated five persons with this initiative today. I’ve talked […]
