The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday said it was monitoring reports of allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination and made recommendations on how people with histories of allergies should proceed. Anyone who had a severe reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine should not get the second dose, the agency said, defining مزید پڑھیں

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided on Thursday night to approve Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on an emergency basis, the Financial Times reported, citing people close to the process. The report comes after the FDA said it informed Moderna that it would rapidly work towards the finalisation and issuance of emergency use authorisation مزید پڑھیں

 Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Thursday his government has decided to distribute National Sehat Card amongst people of Azad Kashmir. All of the populace in the 10 districts of Azad Kashmir will be given health insurance cards, the PM announced and added that for 1.2 million people overall, the government will begin printing the cards. مزید پڑھیں

An expert panel has said that there is not enough evidence that Vitamin D supplements are effective against protecting people from COVID-19, BBC reported on Thursday. The panel consists of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Public Health England and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. It said that people, however, should continue مزید پڑھیں

Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the first week of roll-out of the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of deployment of the vaccine said on Wednesday. “A really good start to the vaccination program. It’s been 7 days and we have done: England: مزید پڑھیں

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday that it confirmed the first known case of the coronavirus in a wild animal, a mink. The discovery increases concerns about outbreaks in mink as the virus has killed more than 15,000 farmed mink in the United States since August. Global health officials are investigating the potential مزید پڑھیں

The coronavirus vaccine will be available in Pakistan in the next two months, says Prime Minister Imran Khan’s National Task Force on Science and Technology Chairperson Dr Atta-ur-Rehman. Dr Rehman said on Monday that the richer and bigger countries have already paid for the COVID-19 vaccine. “It will take time for smaller countries to procure مزید پڑھیں

Some of the rooms in Korea Superfreeze Inc’s coldest warehouse are so frigid that a cup of warm water thrown into one will immediately turn into snow. Located 65 km (40 miles) below Seoul and boasting temperatures frostier than an Antarctic winter, the facility would be the best, perhaps only, place in South Korea suitable مزید پڑھیں

US experts met Thursday to assess whether to grant emergency approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine and allow America to become the next country to move ahead with mass immunization. The independent committee of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a non-binding vote at the end of the day, and the مزید پڑھیں

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) notified on Thursday a Rs3,564 cut in the price of Remdesivir, a drug found to be effective in treating patients hospitalised with coronavirus. According to the notification, the new price of 100mg vial of the antiviral is fixed at Rs5,680. The drug regulator has asked firms importing Remesivir مزید پڑھیں