Sinopharm is available and being used for vaccinations in Pakistan: health ministry
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Thursday May 27, 2021
A signage of Sinopharm is seen at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), following the COVID-19 outbreak, in Beijing, China September 5, 2020. Reuters/Tingshu Wang
Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination on Thursday issued a statement on the Sinopharm vaccine, after a spate of confusion and misinformation surrounding its availability and use in Pakistan was seen among people.
According to a statement issued by the ministry on Twitter, the Sinopharm vaccine is available in Pakistan and is currently being administered to people.
Daily Times
May 3, 2021
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is set to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), worth $14.5 million to Pakistan to help contain the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
According to a document, the UNICEF Pakistan is supporting Ministry of National Health Services Regulations & Coordination, to procure PPEs test kits and medicines for a total value of $14.5 million with funding support from World Bank ($8.5 million), ADB ($0.5 million) and Gavi The Vaccine Alliance ( $5,5 million).
The PPEs will be distributed to hospitals, isolation centres, quarantine areas and frontline vaccinators. So far PPEs worth US$2 million have been delivered and handed over to MNHSR&C for distribution.
Speakers press strong legislation, sustained political commitment to achieve sustainable population growth
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Senator Syed Shibli Faraz, Federal Minister of Science and Technology, has said that the government is fully committed to ensure universal access to family planning services and is working towards achieving a sustainable population growth rate in light of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) decisions that call for stronger legislation and increased investment on family planning programs in the country.
He made these remarks while speaking at the third meeting of the Parliamentary Forum on Population here on Thursday.
The meeting was organized online by the Population Council with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which was attended by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, the Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Forum on Population, members of the senate, legislators from the national and provincial assemblies re
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Children at the Public Health Initiative in Karnataka, India. Researchers in India found that COVID-19 infections in the country, had been grossly underestimated and could be up to 95 times higher than the official numbers. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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