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Decision soon on Covid-19 vaccine availability in Pak: NCOC ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Thu, Dec 24 2020 13:12 IST | ​ 0 Views Vaccination.. Image Source: IANS News Islamabad, Dec 24 : Pakistans National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has announced that the federal government will soon make a decision about the availability of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in the country at the earliest. In a statement on Wednesday, the NCOC said the government was regularly reviewing d...

Share on Twitter Nikolai Petrovsky, professor of medicine at the Flinders University in South Australia, is leading the research for COVAX coronavirus vaccine. “We have been doing phase-1 clinical trials and have done a lot of animal studies and the plan for next year is to take the vaccine into phase-3 clinical trials," he says. The COVAX vaccine is based on the synthetic-protein, as opposed to the mRNA technology used in other vaccines. “The mRNA technology is being used for t...

Pakistan to Start Trials of Australian COVID-19 Vaccine Having recently successfully concluded the trials of the Chinese vaccine for COVID-19, Pakistan is all set to initiate the clinical trials of another vaccine. According to Dr. Javed Akram, Vice Chancellor of University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore and member of PM’s Scientific Task Force on COVID-19, clinical trials of Australian-made vaccine will be soon held at UHS. ALSO READ UHS has made all the necessary arrangements and is waitin...