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While Pakistan has till now been spared a nightmare like India's, success still depends on a vaccination programme that still doesn't 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, 2021, WBUR article. “And if we fail to address that, we can spend all the money in the world on te...

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 delay it for a few days. Eid holidays will be observed from May 10 to 15 throughout the country. Accordi...