Health

KARACHI: Despite some hiccups, including reluctance among healthcare providers, the Covid-19 vaccination drive is slowly picking up pace in the city, sources. They also pointed to the lack of clarity in the registration process, lack of consultation with stakeholders as well as apprehensions about the government policy towards the private sector as factors affecting the drive. According to the health …

WUHAN: World Health Organisation inspectors on Wednesday visited a laboratory in China’s Wuhan city at the heart of a controversial theory that it could have been the source of the coronavirus. The inspection of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducts research on the world’s most dangerous diseases, will be one of the most-watched stops on the team’s probe into …

The Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19, which started being administered in Pakistan this week, is not recommended for people older than 60 years, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, he said the government’s expert committee while considering the preliminary analysis of Sinopharm data had recommended that the …

PESHAWAR: The vaccination of frontline workers against Covid-19 will begin in 17 centres set up in eight districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday (today). The province has recorded 32 deaths and 3,113 cases of coronavirus among the healthcare providers since early last year. “The vaccination will start in the designated centres simultaneously. About 50 health workers would get shots in …

Vaccination drives against the novel coronavirus started simultaneously in all federating units of the country on Wednesday, a day after 500,000 doses of the vaccine arrived in Islamabad as a gift from China. As per the government’s vaccination strategy, health workers were the first to receive the vaccine. Simultaneous inauguration ceremonies, held in major cities of all provinces as well as in …

• Imran praises his team, China for vaccine • Fifty-year-old doctor gets the first shot • 63 more Covid patients die in a day ISLAMABAD: Nearly a year after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that claimed 11,746 lives and infected more than half a million in the country, the government began vaccinating the frontline warriors on Tues­day, …

South Africa’s first coronavirus vaccine doses arrived by airplane on Monday, offering some relief for health workers who have been stretched during the second wave of infections and are first in line for the shots. President Cyril Ramaphosa and other top officials were at the OR Tambo international airport to receive the 1 million shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Some …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday launched Pakistan’s anti-Covid vaccination drive, with the first jab administered to a doctor at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad. The first vaccine was administered under the supervision of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Frontline health worker Dr Rana Imran became the first person in Pakistan to receive the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 63 more coronavirus-related deaths in past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 11,746. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 63 more lives and 1,220 fresh infections were reported. In the past 24 hours, as many as 1,285 patients have recovered from the virus …

WUHAN: WHO experts on Sunday visited the market in central China linked to the first known Covid-19 cluster, seeking clues about the outbreak of the pandemic as a number of nations further tightened restrictions to stop the coronavirus. France’s borders were to close at midnight to non-European countries, a day after Germany imposed a ban on most travellers from nations …