The UNICEF Pakistan has said that 100,000 doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine have reached Pakistan under the COVAX facility, reported 24NewsHD TV Channel. In its tweet on Friday, UNICEF Pakistan said that over 100,000 doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine via COVAX have arrived in Pakistan. Shipments ...

Pakistan is expected to receive vaccine doses via the COVAX vaccine facility starting this week, sources said Monday. According to the sources, the first consignment will bring 1.2 million doses of the Oxford-Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine to the country. The shipment is arriving from South ...

A higher number of infections and the circulation of the new more contagious variants of coronavirus around the world have created an alarming situation. In particular, new variants of coronavirus that emerged recently in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil could pose a threat to vaccination and ...

Provincial governments do not need to obtain a NOC from the federal government before procuring any of the registered Coronavirus vaccines. According to the Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Dr. Faisal Sultan, the federal government will extend maximum support to provincial ...

*ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Dr. Faisal Sultan on Sunday said that Pakistan will receive another batch of 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China next week. * While speaking in the ARY News program ‘Sawal Ye Hai’, Faisal Sultan said that vaccines imported by the ...

Foreign Office has categorically rejected media reports which claimed that Pakistan had signed an agreement with India for the procurement of AstraZeneca’s Coronavirus vaccine. During the weekly press briefing, the Spokesperson for Foreign Office, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, clarified that Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD – The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has approved the Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine Gam-COVID-Vac, also known as Sputnik V, for emergency use. According to details, the registration board of the DRAP in its 299th meeting on Friday, had granted ‘emergency use ...

Minister for Planning and Development, Asad Umar says the government has approved purchasing of coronavirus vaccine and it would be available in March. In an interview with a private television channel, he said the government has given approval of “AstraZeneca”, vaccine while discussion with ...

Pakistan will start the mass production of anti-rabies vaccines and snake venom antidote by 2021 to end its dependence on imports from India for them. The country requires between 200,000 and 300,000 doses of antidote for snakebites and 1.5 million to 2 million doses of rabies vaccine every ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) A new generation of universal flu vaccines has been designed, to protect against the future global pandemics that could potentially kill millions of people.The vaccine, designed by an international team of scientists, has the potential to give protection for up to 88 per cent of ...