The British High Commission on Sunday announced that Pakistan will soon receive doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. According to a statement from the Commission, the country will receive “17 million doses of the vaccine before April”. Thereafter, “before June”, Pakistan will receive an “additional 10 million doses”, said the statement. With the vaccine, more than مزید پڑھیں

All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organization’s search for the origins of COVID-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday. A WHO-led mission in China said this week that it was not looking further into the question of whether the virus escaped from a lab, which it considered highly مزید پڑھیں

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on Friday has approved the emergency use of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine from CanSino Biologics. According to the report, the registration board of the regulatory authority has greenlighted the manufacturer’s coronavirus vaccine which comprises a single dose. A request for the approval of the vaccine for emergency use was مزید پڑھیں

Sindh government on Tuesday said that it had so far vaccinated 18,598 frontline health workers against COVID-19. According to the provincial health ministry, out of the total health workers vaccinated in the province, 2453 were inoculated at Khaliq Dina Hall, 1146 at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), 1695 at DOW University Ojha Campus, 2486 at مزید پڑھیں

COVID-19 survivors might only need one shot of the new vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, instead of the usual two doses, because their immune systems have gotten a head start on learning to recognize the virus, according to two separate reports posted this week on medRxiv ahead of peer review. In one study of 59 مزید پڑھیں

COVID-19 vaccines might offer protection against severe disease even as coronavirus variants evolve to better allow continued transmission between people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said on Wednesday. Asked how effective the Oxford/AstraZeneca will be against new variants, he said “they are making changes that allow them to avoid human immune مزید پڑھیں

The national immunization drive against coronavirus kicked off on Wednesday simultaneously in all the provinces. According to the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), the first tranche of COVID-19 vaccine has reached all the federating units, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar initiated the national immunisation مزید پڑھیں

A special aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) departed for Beijing on Sunday to bring the first batch of a China-made Covid-19 vaccine to Pakistan. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), all arrangements for storage, transportation and administration of the vaccine have been finalised. It said all measures for vaccine distribution مزید پڑھیں

France’s Pasteur Institute said on Monday it was ending development of a Covid-19 vaccine with US pharmaceutical company Merck after clinical trial results proved disappointing. The partners announced a tie-up last May to develop a jab based on an existing measles vaccine, which was put into Phase 1 clinical trials in August. The announcement is مزید پڑھیں

New Zealand health officials said on Sunday they were investigating what they said was probably the country’s first community coronavirus case, in months in a woman who recently returned from overseas. The 56-year-old, who returned to New Zealand on Dec. 30, tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 days after leaving a two-week mandatory مزید پڑھیں