Here are some of the stories we will be following today, December 22, Wednesday: Health officials in Balochistan have reported at least 19 suspected Omicron cases. They are, however, yet to be confirmed by the National Command and Operation Centre. Balochistan Health Department officials say the samples have been sent to the National Institute of Health Islamabad for verification.The hearing of the defamation case filed by Ali Zafar against Meesha Shafi, which was scheduled today, has been delayed till January 2022. On December 16, 2020, FIA named eight people, including Shafi and Omar, in a challan for running an online defamatory campaign against Ali Zafar. The Punjab government has.
KP s death toll due to coronavirus swelled to 4,362 and cases to 139,463, according to a report of health department. AP/File
PESHAWAR: The health department is scaling up contact tracing of Covid-19 patients after rise in the number of cases in other provinces as three more died of the pandemic and 150 fresh patients were diagnosed with the virus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.
“National Command and Operation Centre has asked the provinces including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to enhance testing of suspected people, especially the contacts of the confirmed patients in view of the fourth wave of the pandemic,” officials of health department told
July 11, 2021
Pakistan has earned $10 million by conducting first-ever Phase-III clinical trials for the single-dose Chinese Covid-19 vaccine CanSino Bio at five leading public and private health facilities in the country, and now the National Institute of Health (NIH) is going to earn 30 million dollars within a year by co-manufacturing the same vaccine after technology transfer from China, officials said on Saturday.
“Phase-III clinical trials of the CanSino Biologics single-dose Covid-19 were the first-ever such trials conducted in Pakistan and we earned $10 million by conducting these trials at five centres in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Now we are being approached by companies from the UK, Korea and Japan, as well as from China for conducting Phase-III clinical trials of several more vaccines, which can earn us huge revenue and foreign exchange,” said Major General Aamer Ikram, executive director of the National Institute of Health Islamabad, at a health conference in
The health department will also start immunisation of Pakistanis who remained stranded in Afghanistan on Friday (today). Reuters/File
PESHAWAR: Health department detected five cases of Covid-19 variants of United Kingdom, South Africa and India origins as two more persons passed away due to coronavirus and 153 new cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday.
The health department will also start immunisation of the Pakistanis, who remained stranded in Afghanistan, on Friday (today).
“We have detected three cases of Delta (UK), one each of South Africa (N501Y) and India (Delta) in the seven positive samples of patients sent to National Institute of Health Islamabad,” health officials told this scribe.
The health department will also start immunisation of Pakistanis who remained stranded in Afghanistan on Friday (today). Reuters/File
PESHAWAR: Health department detected five cases of Covid-19 variants of United Kingdom, South Africa and India origins as two more persons passed away due to coronavirus and 153 new cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday.
The health department will also start immunisation of the Pakistanis, who remained stranded in Afghanistan, on Friday (today).
“We have detected three cases of Delta (UK), one each of South Africa (N501Y) and India (Delta) in the seven positive samples of patients sent to National Institute of Health Islamabad,” health officials told this scribe.