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February 9, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Monday announced that China’s CanSinoBio COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 75% effective against the virus in Pakistan.
Taking to Twitter, the special assistant said that according to the vaccine’s phase-three trials data, it has turned out to be 74.8% effective against the virus, while it also showed 100% effectiveness in preventing severe disease.
Further citing the Independent Data Monitoring Committee’s report, he said that in multiple countries, the vaccine was 65.7% and 90.98% effective in preventing symptomatic cases and severe diseases, respectively.
The SAPM said that the IDMC did not report any “serious safety concerns” and that the data included as many as 30,000 participants and 101 people who had tested positive for coronavirus. At the beginning of February, China’s CanSino Biologics had said that an independent committee found the drugmaker’s C
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Around 40 to 50 million people will be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Pakistan this year, said Special Assistant to the PM for Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Tuesday.
The aim is to vaccinate 100 million, but only 70% might be immunised this year, said Dr Sultan on SAMAA TV s show Naya Din.