The Covid-19 crisis is far from over, the World Health Organisation’s emergency committee said on Tuesday as it called for research into next-generation vaccines for long-term control of the pandemic. The 19-member committee meets every three months to discuss the pandemic and make recommendations. “While progress has been made through increased uptake of Covid-19 vaccines مزید پڑھیں

An expert panel on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to recommend the US Food and Drug Administration authorise the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, saying the benefits of the shot outweigh the risks. An authorisation for that age group would be an important regulatory step toward reaching about 28 مزید پڑھیں

Vaccines for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 will likely be available in the first half of November, top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, predicting a timetable that could see many kids getting fully vaccinated before the end of the year. “If all goes well, and we get the مزید پڑھیں

Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said on Monday that the federal government will soon launch Rescue 1122 service in the federal capital. The interior minister announced this while addressing a press conference here in Islamabad. Sheikh Rasheed further said that a special all-women market will be established in the country’s federal capital where women will مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan reported a coronavirus positivity rate of less than 2% for the ninth consecutive day, government data showed Sunday morning. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 43,522 COVID-19 tests were conducted across the country in the last 24 hours, of which 591 returned positive. The country has mostly recorded less than 7,00 مزید پڑھیں

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services said that the country’s target of vaccinating 100 million people has been achieved. In a video message, Dr Faisal Sultan said that 100 million people across the country have been vaccinated. “Today is a very important day. We have crossed an important milestone. The whole process مزید پڑھیں

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the drugmaker said on Friday. Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents submitted to the U.S. Food and مزید پڑھیں

Russia has reported some COVID-19 infections with a new coronavirus variant believed to be even more contagious than the Delta one, the RIA news agency said on Thursday (Oct 21). It is possible that the AY.4.2 variant will spread widely, RIA quoted the state consumer watchdog’s senior researcher Kamil Khafizov as saying. That could cause مزید پڑھیں

Expressing concern over the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccination drive in various cities, including Karachi, Hyderabad and Quetta, National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) chief Asad Umar has said that the district admin and health teams in these cities needed to improve their performance. Taking to Twitter, Umar commended the vaccination progress in Islamabad, Peshawar, مزید پڑھیں

A World Health Organization-led programme to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as little as $10 per course, a draft document seen by Reuters says. Merck & Co’s experimental pill molnupiravir is likely to be one of the مزید پڑھیں