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Karachi February 3, 2021 The Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine’s first consignment containing 83,000 doses arrived at the Karachi airport on Tuesday evening. The consignment was received by Sindh health secretary Kazim Jatoi, Project Director Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Dr Akram Sultan and other officials at the airport, from where it was shifted to the EPI storage centre in the city. “We have received the first consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine from Islamabad, which arrived here ...

Vaccine doses arrive in Karachi Jabs stored in health dept’s depot at optimum temperature PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: The first tranche of Sinopharm vaccine doses, numbering 83,000, was handed over to the Sindh Health Department on Tuesday. The doses, which were sent via an aeroplane, have been stored in the provincial health department’s depot, where temperature has been regulated to ensure that it is suitable for storing the vaccine doses. The doses were received by Expanded Programme on I...

The first consignment of the coronavirus vaccine had reached Lahore on Monday and was stored at the warehouse of the provincial health department at Raiwind. — AFP/File LAHORE: The Punjab government has prepared multiple proposals to effectively dispense and administer the 70,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses it has received from the federal authorities to the healthcare professionals of the public and private institutions and diagnostic centres across the province. The first consignment of the cor...

Karachi February 2, 2021 Around 83,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by the Chinese government, are expected to arrive in Karachi on a commercial flight today, after which vaccination would commence during a ceremony at the Chief Minister’s House on Wednesday morning, officials said on Monday. A team from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) visited various vaccination centers set up by the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) in Karachi. After reviewing the ar...

LAHORE:The first phase of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine drive will start from today in the province in which children of 12 districts will be vaccinated.According to the Punjab Primary and Secondary...

LAHORE: The first phase of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine drive will start from today in the province in which children of 12 districts will be vaccinated.According to the Punjab Primary and Secondary...

Pakistan sends plane to China to acquire coronavirus vaccine 500,000 doses, will be administered to health workers SAMAA | Arham Fatima - Posted: Jan 31, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Arham Fatima Posted: Jan 31, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago Photo: AFP A Pakistan Air Force plane has left for China to acquire 500,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine for free. The government’s National Command and Operation Centre confirmed this Sunday. It said that China had...

1.8m children to get anti-typhoid shots in Rawalpindi 123 union councils have been selected for immunisation Typhoid. PHOTO: REUTERS RAWALPINDI: The Health Services Department under its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has launched its anti-typhoid campaign in Rawalpindi under which 1.876 million children between the ages of 9 months and 15 years will be vaccinated. Health Services Director (EPI Punjab) Dr Bashir Ahmed Siddiqui on Friday inaugurated the campaign by vaccinating children...

15-Day Typhoid Vaccination Drive in Rawalpindi to Begin on 1 Feb ALSO READ The anti-typhoid campaign will run for 15 days, and a public awareness drive will be carried out simultaneously in collaboration with UNICEF. Teams from the Health Department will visit educational institutes and other areas to vaccinate children. About 1,101 EPI teams will be involved in the campaign, and 225 supervisory union councils will oversee it. The first phase of the campaign in which the children in the distric...

South Africa has struggled to secure adequate stock of urgently needed Covid-19 vaccines. This has raised questions about the state of the country’s local vaccine manufacturing capacity and why, after almost two decades of government support, South Africa’s partially state-owned vaccine manufacturer the Biovac Institute (Biovac) is not better positioned to respond to the pandemic. What then did 17 years of state investment in Biovac get us? As often is the case, the answer is both more nua...