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Doctors advise British govt to put off easing of lockdown


June 12, 2021

LONDON: Britain’s main doctors’ union has joined calls for the next planned lockdown easing in England to be delayed, as figures on Friday showed new Covid cases across the UK running at their highest level since late February. The rise in new infections comes as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India. Government figures …

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Sindh devising ‘transparent’ plan for using 12,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine


June 12, 2021

KARACHI: While the demand for Pfizer vaccine is building up across the country, authorities in Sindh are yet to start its administration, sources. They said this particular Covid-19 vaccine was high in demand because some countries, such as Saudi Arabia, where a significant number of Pakistanis worked, were not accepting the Chinese vaccines widely being used in Pakistan and it’s …

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Pakistan still has children susceptible to polio: Unicef


June 12, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Praising Pakistan for almost eradicating polio, Unicef Regional Director George Laryea-Adjei said there are still hundreds of thousands of “invisible children” who are susceptible and must be vaccinated. “There is a group of children called the ‘missing children’ whose parents are refusing for them to receive vaccines for various reasons. They are not easy to find. They don’t go …

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Heart inflammation in young men higher than expected after Pfizer, Moderna vaccines -U.S. CDC


June 11, 2021

WASHINGTON: A higher-than-expected number of young men have experienced heart inflammation after their second dose of the mRNA COVID-19 shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, according to data from two vaccine safety monitoring systems, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday. The CDC and other health regulators have been investigating heart inflammation cases after Israel’s Health …

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G7 to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries


June 11, 2021

CARBIS BAY, England: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects the Group of Seven to agree to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries during its summit starting on Friday, and help innoculate the world by the end of next year. Just hours after U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to supercharge the battle against the coronavirus with a donation …

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US to donate 500m Pfizer doses to poor nations


June 11, 2021

CARBIS BAY: The United States will spend $3.5 billion to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to some of the world’s poorest countries, it said on Thursday, urging other G7 nations to follow suit. The vaccine donation — the largest ever by a single country — was announced before US President Joe Biden meets leaders …

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Pakistan lags behind regional nations in health indicators


June 11, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Countries in the region are far ahead of Pakistan in terms of health indicators and even Afghanistan is ahead of it, according to the Economic Survey of Pakistan. It said the Covid-19 pandemic had tested the country’s health infrastructure and identified needs for more investment in the sector, especially to improve diagnostic facilities, disease surveillance, prevention and spread, training …

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No forced vaccination plans: ministry


June 11, 2021

ISLAMABAD: While around 300,000 doses of vaccines are being administered daily and number of cases is continuously decreasing across the country, over 70 per cent ventilators and the oxygenated beds allocated for Covid-19 patients are vacant. The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has denied rumours that the government would “forcibly” administer the vaccine and plans were under consideration to …

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‘US withdrawal may result in greater polio challenge’


June 10, 2021

KARACHI: The provincial health minister at a meeting held on Wednesday with a foreign delegation shared concern over the regional situation that might force migrants from across the border into Pakistan and create a great challenge for local authorities fighting against polio. The delegation was led by Dr Chris Elias representing the Polio Oversight Board of Bill & Melinda Gates …

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COVID-19 claims 76 more lives in Pakistan


June 10, 2021

ISLAMABAD: The COVID-19 has claimed 76 more lives and infected 1,303 people over the past 24 hours. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data, 76 more people lost their lives. The overall death toll has surged to 21,453, while 1,118 new infections surfaced when 43,900 samples were tested during this period. The positivity rate in the country …

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