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Dr Faisal said that China has always extended a helping hand to Pakistan in crucial times NEWSDESK   March 17, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The second batch of the Sinopharm vaccines from China to inoculate the population against Covid-19 arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday. PMs Assistant on Health Dr Faisal Sultan received the 0.5 million jabs at the Nur Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi, the ministry of health said. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Faisal said China has always extended a helping hand to Pakistan in c...

705 The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says there has not been any record of blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana. According to the Authority, although it has received reports of adverse effects of the vaccine, it has not received any reports of blood clots. It said, among the most commonly reported adverse effects among those vaccinated are headaches, fever, chills, body pains, pain at injection site, weakness, nausea and dizziness. These effects, the FDA says ar...

Pakistan receives second COVID vaccine shipment from China SECTIONS Last Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 07:58 PM IST Share Synopsis The second consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine was received by Pakistan health officials at the Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Dr Faisal Sultan, was present to receive the batch of the vaccines. Agencies The vaccines will be shifted to the warehouse of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and administered ...

  The Extended Programme on Immunisation (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has received about a 1,000 reports of adverse effects from persons vaccinated against the Covid-19. These are people vaccinated within 12 days of the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achino, the Programme Manager of the EPI, told the Ghana News Agency that the reactions and complaints received by his outfit and the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) were fever, sweating, heada...

— DAWN SHANGLA: Two children died and several others were affected due to measles in Kamach union council of Martung tehsil as the health department sent a team to the area for vaccination of children on Tuesday. The health department confirmed the sudden emergence of measles cases in Kharaw village, saying it had engaged a team of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in the affected locality to vaccinate the children against the disease. Ibadullah Khan, a resident of the hilly Kamach a...

Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021 03:31 PM MYT Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. MARCH 16 ― This fear-mongering Whatsapp message has been making its rounds recently by the same set of individuals and NGOs. This is the same group whom I have replied their 19 questions and debunked their baseless allegations on Covid vaccines. Instead of replying with facts and figures, they chose the immature and cowardly route of being personal and using gutter politics. Gr...

The Extended Programme on Immunisation (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has received 1,000 reports of adverse effects from persons vaccinated against the Covid-19.

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Govt, WHO defend use of AstraZeneca vaccine in Lesotho Herbert Moyo HEALTH Minister Semano Sekatle and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have defended the planned use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Lesotho, saying it would be highly effective against more severe symptoms of the Covid-19 disease. In an exclusive interview with the Lesotho Times this week, Mr Sekatle and WHO representative in Lesotho, Richard Banda, said Basotho should not read too much into reports that the vaccine had been fo...

705 The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 300,000 people since the exercise to vaccinate Ghanaians against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic started a week ago. Data gathered electronically indicate that as of 8 p.m. last Sunday, 202,252 people had taken their first dose of the vaccine, with a one-third of the number yet to be captured. “As I said, about a third of this number is still being entered. I say that given the enthusiasm with which Ghanaians wanted to get ...