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Pakistan has increased its funds allocated for purchasing Covid-19 vaccine to $250 million and signed non-disclosure agreements with various multinational companies. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has increased its funds allocated for purchasing Covid-19 vaccine to $250 million and signed non-disclosure agreements with various multinational companies. Under the agreement, the recipient country will not make details of the vaccine public. Earlier, the government had set aside $150m for the...

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s government on Saturday launched a $50 million national campaign to vaccinate millions of children against measles (rubella) despite the coronavirus “health emergency,” officials told Arab News. “In 2019, we noticed a rise in the number of cases of measles, rubella among children in different parts of the country,” Mowla Baksh Chaudhury, program manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), told Arab News. According to the EPI data, 82 cases of measles cases we...

World health body donates six mobile vaccination vans to EPI for Karachi districts.

KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday complained that the federal government has not taken provinces into confidence regarding the coronavirus vaccination timeline.The provincial...