Tag: Coronavirus vaccine
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Govt officials get secretly vaccinated amid delay in mass vaccination, claims journalist
Amid reports of a delay in the procurement of vaccine, senior journalist Sohail Warraich has claimed that the government is in no hurry to order the coronavirus vaccine as most of the senior government members have already been vaccinated against the deadly disease. In an article published in Jang, Warraich implied the bigwigs of this…
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Pakistan has yet to place final order for vaccine procurement: report
Even though the government has promised Pakistanis a vaccine in the first quarter of this year, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has failed to place a final order to acquire the much-needed vaccine to inoculate at least 100 million people. According to a media outlet, the country was striving to get its first batch of…
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COVID-19 vaccines to be provided in three phases
The federal government has completed the plan for the COVID-19 vaccination drive. Vaccines will be distributed in three phases with the first phase expected to start from March 2021. A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Health Sajid Hussain Shah told The Current that in the first phase, vaccines will be provided to 0.5 million…
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Japan might have a vaccine for Coronavirus
The Japanese media is reporting that a drug created in Japan to treat new strains of the flu has appeared to be effective in coronavirus patients in China. Medical authorities have used the drug during a drug test in China reports The Guardian, and according to an official of China’s science and technology ministry, “it…