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ISLAMABAD: British High Commission in Pakistan has stated that 17 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine would soon reach Pakistan. “The first consignment of seven million doses of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine will reach Pakistan before April,” British High Commission in Islamabad said in a statement “Next 10 million doses of the vaccine will be dispatched to Pakistan before June,” …

AUCKLAND: New Zealand Sunday reported three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, the country’s first since late January when a returned traveller tested positive after leaving quarantine. New Zealand’s minister for COVID-19 response, Chris Hipkins, said the three cases were a couple and their daughter in Auckland, and that genomic testing was being conducted to see if the family’s infection was …

ISLAMABAD: The latest update issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday showed that 1,262 more Covid-19 cases and 58 deaths were reported across the country during 24 hours. It said that 17 per cent of the ventilators allocated for Covid-19 patients were occupied in the country. Moreover, 2,143 patients were in hospitals across the country on …

More than two million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies said on Friday, urging stakeholders to end the years-long conflict that has brought the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine. The UN report warned that nearly one in six of those kids — 400,000 of the …

LONDON: British scientists announced on Friday they had developed a test to detect womb cancer using urine samples, explaining the method could replace a painful and invasive procedure currently in use. At present, clinicians diagnose the cancer by taking a biopsy, a process which requires a narrow telescope called a hysteroscope, to examine inside of the uterus and remove cells. …

• Cansino Bio only company to have conducted clinical trials in Pakistan • Around 20m doses to be available in next six months • Another Chinese firm to conduct clinical trial ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) on Friday issued emergency use authorisation to the Chinese company Cansino Biologics Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine after which supply of the doses …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 33 more coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 12,218. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 33 more lives and 1,270 fresh infections were reported. In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,481 patients have recovered from the virus …

ISLAMABAD: While 1,502 more people were infected with coronavirus and 57 lost their lives across the country in a single day, the government has allowed private companies to import Covid-19 vaccine and exempted price cap on its sale in the local market. However, import of only registered vaccine of credible pharmaceutical companies will be allowed and its price will be …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 57 more coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 12,185. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 57 more lives and 1,502 fresh infections were reported. In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,732 patients have recovered from the virus …

AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine is in the final stages of review for a World Health Organization emergency-use listing and could receive approval by mid-February, the United Nations health agency said on Wednesday. In a joint briefing with the WHO’s SAGE expert panel on immunisation, officials recommended the shot should be widely used, emphasising that its benefits outweigh any risks. “We hope …