ISLAMABAD :The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednesday directed all stakeholders to beef up vaccination outreach measures after Measles Rubella (MR) campaign for maximum inoculation of eligible population. The NCOC session chaired by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar and co-chaired by National Coordinator Major General Zafar Iqbal took […]
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Pfizer strikes global licensing deal for Covid pill
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Tuesday announced a deal to make its prospective antiviral Covid-19 pill available more cheaply in the world’s least-wealthy countries. Pfizer will sub-license production of its promising Paxlovid pill to generic drug manufacturers for supply in 95 low- and middle-income nations covering around 53 percent of the world’s population. Under the deal struck with the global Medicines […]
Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna making $1,000 profit every second: analysis
Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis. The companies have sold the vast majority of their doses to rich countries, leaving low-income nations in the lurch, said the People’s Vaccine Alliance […]
Immunization drive against measles and rubella launched in Sindh schools today
Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the immunization drive in Sindh at NJV Government Higher Secondary School on Monday. An immunization drive against measles and rubella was launched with an aim to eradicate the life-threatening diseases. CM said on the occasion that the provincial government wants to make the province free […]
9 deaths, 391 new coronavirus cases reported in Pakistan
Pakistan has reported 9 deaths in the last 24 hours by coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,279,142. The nationwide tally of fatalities jumped to 28,584 on Friday. According to the latest figures issued by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), a total of 391 persons tested positive […]
Dr Yasmeen Rashid says medicines for dengue are abundantly available in Punjab government hospitals
LAHORE: Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid said that medicines for the patients of dengue are abundantly available in government hospitals of Punjab. The decisions of the 10th meeting in the 11th Syndicate Meeting of Rawalpindi Medical University chaired by Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid were approved. The provincial health minister also sanctioned a budget of Rs7.5 […]
Australian firm recalls over 2 million US Covid tests
An Australian medical tech manufacturer has recalled more than two million at-home Covid-19 tests shipped to the United States after finding an increased chance of false positives. The US Food and Drug Administration issued an alert Wednesday that the company, Ellume, had recalled 2.2 million tests since the issue was detected last month. A false positive test result indicates that a […]
WHO looking forward to second generation Covid vaccines
Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that she was looking forward to the “second generation” of Covid-19 vaccines, which includes oral versions and nasal sprays. Second generation vaccination could have advantages over the current crop as they would be self-administered by the person to be vaccinated and could […]
Coronavirus: 65 cases of Delta variant detected in Karachi
KARACHI: So far, 65 coronavirus Delta variant cases have been detected in the Karachi, Karachi University’s International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) revealed on Thursday. According to the Director of ICCBS Professor Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, out of 2,062 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours at the institution’s lab, 163 turned out to […]
Covid-19: 1.9 million likely get first jab of vaccine in Sindh
Karachi: The current undergoing vaccination drive in six divisions of Sindh results 97000 people got vaccinated dose in last 24 hours. Sources revealed that 1.9 million people have got at least one dose of the vaccine in the province. Around 6,45,000 people have got two doses of Covid-19 vaccines in Sindh, according to sources. 10.2 […]