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While Pakistan has till now been spared a nightmare like Indias, success still depends on a vaccination programme that still doesnt find many takers

Preventing pandemics before they start A new international task force is aimed at stopping new diseases like COVID-19 from spreading from animals to humans. “The conversation on prevention is entirely about vaccines and diagnostics and drugs and improving health systems, which are all critically important, but they’re missing the fundamental problem here, which is that we’re driving these pathogens into people through our actions that are destroying nature,” said Bernstein in a May 20, ...

K B Jandial It is extremely painful to daily receivenews of corona death of a dear one or other. Reports of Covid death of ministers, political leaders,

Eid holidays will be observed from May 10 to 15 throughout the country.

Vaccination centres likely to remain closed on all three Eid days Around 450,000 people may not be able to get their first or second Covid-19 vaccine doses as the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has been considering closing the Adult Vaccination Centres (AVCs) on the first three Eid holidays. However, a member of the Scientific Task Force on Covid-19, Prof Dr Javed Akram, said this would not make much of a difference as people may either get their second doses a bit earlier or dela...

  “After 48 days of vaccination so far, my physical condition is 100 percent fit. My body has not observed any change,” said Mr. Hussain, 54, who is a test subject amongst total of 18000 trial participants who received shots of CanSino during Pakistan’s first-ever massive Phase-III (Last Stage) Clinical Trials.   The Clinical Trials was conducted at solely public sector institution, the University of Health Sciences (UHS) officially approved by the government of Pakistan under strict gu...

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson says Beijing has decided to provide batch of vaccine doses to Pakistan "as aid".

The only hurdle in importing the Covid-19 vaccine from Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm will be removed soon with its Phase-I trial in Karachi reaching the final stage. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: As the novel coronavirus continues to claim dozens of lives a day in Pakistan, the only hurdle in importing the Covid-19 vaccine from Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm will be removed soon with its Phase-I trial in Karachi reaching the final stage, it emerged on Tuesday. In a separate develop...

Infections in the country cross 497,210 with 2,435 new cases in last 24 hours

Pakistan is expecting to complete the clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine in the current week. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: As over 17,000 out of 18,000 volunteers have been vaccinated, Pakistan is expecting to complete the clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine in the current week. While critics said the country should have pre-booked the vaccine, some experts are of the opinion that by the end of the first quarter of the year, tens of options will be available for the procurement of vaccine. In Aug...