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Wouldnt be easy to provide vaccine to entire population: Dr Faisal   Published On He said 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccine will be available in Pakistan in March. ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Special Assistant on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Dr Faisal Sultan on Wednesday said that 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccine will be available in Pakistan in March. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday, he said that the government will provide corona ...

Bdesh to receive 2 mn Covishield doses from India as gift ​ By Sumi Khan ( IANS) | Published on ​ Tue, Jan 19 2021 19:27 IST | ​ 0 Views   Bdesh to receive 2 mn Covishield doses from India as gift (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS). Image Source: IANS News Dhaka, Jan 19 : Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said that the country would receive two million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (Covishield) from India as a "gift" on Wednesday. Maleque confirmed to IANS that a...

South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout will be ’paperless’ By Rudolph Nkgadima Share Cape Town - South Africa will ditch the paper system when it comes to the management and monitoring of the Covid-19 vaccine. The Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) is expected to go live, in tandem with the vaccine roll out early next month. According to Dr Anban Pillay, deputy director-general (DDG) at the Department of Health, the system will also be used for tracking the vaccines and t...

04:40 PM, January 19, 2021 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:42 PM, January 19, 2021 India’s gift of 20 lakh Covid-19 vaccines likely to reach in a day or two: health minister File photo of Health Minister Zahid Maleque Star Online Report Star Online Report The twenty lakh doses of Covishield vaccine, being gifted by India, may reach the country tomorrow or on the next day [Thursday], health minister Zahid Maleque said today. "We expect [the vaccine] will come...

COVID-19 vaccine distribution from early February in line with previously laid out plans as the first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca inoculates are expected to reach the country by next week, officials said. “The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will arrive by January 26,” health services director general (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam told BSS. Alam added his office accomplished all required steps so the countrywide CO...

The government is likely to start piloting the Covid-19 vaccination from next week with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines obtained from the Indian government, doses of which are expected to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow. The launch date of piloting the vaccination will be finalised upon the prime minister's consent, Health Minister Zahid Maleque told The Daily Star yesterday, adding

Govt prepares storages for keeping corona vaccine The government has made arrangements to keep coroanvirus vaccine as a consignment of two million of the Oxfrod-Astrazeneca vaccine will arrive on Thursday as gift from the Indian government. At the same time, the government also is preparing storages to keep more five million Covishield vaccine purchased from Serum Institute of India which may arrive in the country by January 26. Prof Dr ABM Khurshid Alam, director general of Directorate General...

Officials said they have trained the vaccinators and procured syringes and safety boxes necessary for the programme. Officials of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said Dhaka city dwellers will be vaccinated at between 320 and 330 points. "But inoculation will not begin at every vaccination point on the same day. It will start gradually," a senior official involved with the plans told The Daily Star yesterday. There will be vaccination points at four government medical college h...

India will launch its most ambitious and the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive on Saturday. Inoculating the country’s vast and distributed population is a big challenge but India’s past experience in mass vaccination will come in handy here. The current Covid-19 vaccination drive also leans heavily on processes, manpower, database and experience of the Universal Immunisation Programme that vaccinated over 27 million pregnant women and 25 million infants every year. Much before mo...

First shipment of vaccine to arrive on Jan 25-26 Govt may allow pvt companies to import, distribute vaccines Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent The first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, produced by Serum Institute of India, will arrive in the country on January 25 or 26, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday. He also said the government is likely to allow private companies to import and distribute Covid vaccines. The minis...