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2020, the year everything changed: a timeline
A timeline of Covid-19 events in Pakistan
December 19, 2020
To say that the novel coronavirus has changed the world would be an understatement. Since the virus first appeared in China’s Wuhan city on November 17, 2019, it has been exactly 397 days. The longest 397 days ever.
In a matter of days, the entire world went into complete chaos as clusters of cases emerged all over the world.
In a matter of weeks, pressure on the healthcare sector mounted as hospital wards began overflowing with patients experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus.
In a matter of months, the entire world went into complete lockdown and businesses were forced to shut down.
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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 the first time in humans. Obviously, we know a lot less about them at this stage, than we do about synthetic-protein approaches that we take,” says Prof Petrovsky.
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.
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UHS has made all the necessary arrangements and is waiting for the green signal from the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) and National Bioethics Committee (NBC) to proceed with the trials, Dr. Javed added.