Drugmakers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech, and Moderna Inc are expected to make billions of dollars from COVID-19 booster shots in a market that could rival the $6 billion in annual sales for flu vaccines for years to come, analysts and healthcare investors say. For several months, the companies have said they expect that fully inoculated people مزید پڑھیں
A clinical trial in 52 countries would study three anti-inflammatory drugs as potential treatments for COVID-19 patients, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday. “These therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab — were selected by an independent expert panel for their potential in reducing the risk of death in hospitalised COVID-19 patients,” it said مزید پڑھیں
A foreign airlines flight carrying one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine landed in Islamabad, quoting sources on Wednesday.Pakistan has received Covid vaccine consignment of China’s Sinopharm under the COVAX vaccine platform. The vaccine consignment has been shifted to the central warehouse of the federal Expanded Programme of Immunization (EPI) from the airport, sources said. China مزید پڑھیں
You can get the second dose of the Covid vaccine anytime after the minimum time interval has passed, said Monday Prime Minister’s aide on national health Dr Faisal Sultan. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services tweeted earlier today that the masses don’t need a reminder and schedule and they can مزید پڑھیں
COVID-19 increases patients’ risks for heart attack and stroke, suggests a study from Sweden that compared 86,742 individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 and 348,481 people without the virus. In the week following a COVID-19 diagnosis, the risk of a first heart attack went up three- to eight-fold, and the risk of a first stroke مزید پڑھیں
There are early signs that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may be able to transmit the Delta variant of the virus as easily as those who have not, scientists at Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday. The findings chime with those from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which last مزید پڑھیں
Moderna said on Thursday its COVID-19 shot was about 93% effective through six months after the second dose, showing hardly any change from the 94% efficacy reported in its original clinical trial. That compares favorably to data from Pfizer and BioNTech last week in which they said their vaccine’s efficacy waned around 6% every two مزید پڑھیں
Pakistan will receive 3.5 million doses of COVID vaccines from China within two days as the country has expedited its vaccination process in the wake of the fourth wave of the infection, reported on Monday. According to sources privy to details, the vaccines to be brought to Pakistan included two million doses of Sinopharm and مزید پڑھیں
Pakistan on Wednesday crossed another milestone after Minister for Planning and Development and head of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar said that the country vaccinated 778,000 people in a day, breaking the previous record, reported. Taking to Twitter to share the news, the NCOC head said that they have set another مزید پڑھیں
The World Health Organization on Wednesday sought to reassure pharmaceutical companies that a proposal to suspend patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines was not a bid to “snatch” their intellectual property rights. With more than four million dead and the toll likely to reach much higher, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said vaccine makers should be مزید پڑھیں
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