Two districts of Pakistan including Karachi have reported the COVID-19 positivity ratio over 25 percent in last 24 hours, reported on Tuesday. According to sources at the Ministry for National Health, Gilgit has reported the highest positivity ratio at 28.9 percent, followed by 25.1 percent positivity in Karachi, the country’s largest city. Twenty-two districts of مزید پڑھیں

Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar said on Saturday that overseas workers and students travelling abroad will be administered Moderna vaccine. In a message on his official Twitter handle, the minister said: “Received 2.5 million doses of moderna sent by US govt. This will [be administered to] particularly those who have to travel for work مزید پڑھیں

The United States (US) on Monday has announced to send 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan, confirmed White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki said the doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are being sent to Pakistan to help Islamabad in the fight against the pandemic. She further said The US مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan has made an agreement to procure 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer. An exact timeline was not yet available, health minister Faisal Sultan told Reuters, but said the doses would arrive by the end of 2021, under an agreement the government has made with the manufacturer. Pakistan has started a mass vaccination مزید پڑھیں

Punjab has started administering Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to people suffering from chronic illnesses. According to health officials, the American vaccine is being administered to AIDS, cancer, and organ transplant patients. Sources said the specialised health department has distributed the Pfizer vaccine. The Shaukat Khanum hospital has been given 7,000 doses and the Pakistan Kidney and مزید پڑھیں

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ COVID-19 antibody cocktail reduces deaths in hospitalised patients who have not mounted their own antibody response, a large British study published on Wednesday found. The therapy, REGEN-COV, has been granted emergency use authorisation for people with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in the United States, but results from the RECOVERY trial provide the clearest evidence of مزید پڑھیں

In a bid to help inoculate people who need to travel abroad for education or jobs, the federal government has revised guidelines for the AstraZeneca vaccine and allowed citizens who are 18 or older to get the jab. According to new guidelines issued by the National Ministry of Health, the vaccine shot could be given مزید پڑھیں

Pakistan’s Covid-19 vaccination figure will cross the ten million mark today (Wednesday), says Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar. Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), tweeted that the tally of vaccine doses administered thus far in the country will cross ten million today. Thankfully, people are signing up for covid-19 مزید پڑھیں

One million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been flown in from China, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Saturday.The shipment arrived in Islamabad on board a special Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, it said. The NCOC said another 11 million doses of China’s Sinovac, CanSino and Sinopharm vaccines will be brought مزید پڑھیں

A World Health Organisation (WHO) senior adviser said Friday wealthy nations need to give more COVID-19 vaccines and follow the United States in making doses available immediately to cover a 200 million dose gap caused by Indian supply disruptions and manufacturing delays. Warning of a “two-track recovery”, the WHO is urging wealthy countries to donate مزید پڑھیں