DHAKA: Bangladesh is all set to start locally manufacturing China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 inactivated vaccine as an agreement on co-production of the Chinese jab was signed via video with relevant authorities. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between China’s Sinopharm Group, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Incepta Vaccine Ltd, a leading local … Read more
ISTANBUL: Turkey has administered over 85 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines as part of the ongoing vaccination campaign, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday. So far, more than 44.6 million citizens have received their first doses, while 33.6 million have taken two doses in the country with a population of 83 million, said the ministry. … Read more
BANGKOK: Thailand plans to start human trials on two Covid-19 vaccines via nasal spray by the end of this year after promising results of experiment in mice, a Thai official has said. The adenovirus vector-based and influenza virus vector-based Covid-19 vaccines were developed by Thailand’s National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, said Anan Jongkaewwattana, … Read more
A shipment of nearly 980,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines donated by domestic drug-maker China National Biotech Group through COVAX was transported to Pakistan as part of China’s effort to help the rest of the world tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said. The doses, the first sent in a 170 million dose agreement, were packaged … Read more
WASHINGTON: Half of the total US population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the data updated Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on its website. As of Friday, 50 per cent of the US population – more than 165.9 million people – had been fully vaccinated against the virus. … Read more
BEIJING: China will provide 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the world and offer $100 million to Covax throughout this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday in a written message to the first meeting of the international forum on Covid-19 vaccine cooperation. [embedpost slug=”/china-urges-us-to-completely-lift-sanctions-against-cuba/”]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand saw another milestone in administering Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with two million Covid-19 vaccines being given to Kiwis. The pandemic is not coming to an end and it is important to keep the virus, particularly the Delta variant, out of the country, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told a press conference. The … Read more
Pakistan on Monday received 3 million doses of Moderna vaccine donated by the US government through the COVAX facility with UNICEF support. UNICEF, in a series of tweet, stated that with this consignment the number of Covid vaccines received by Pakistan has reached 8 million. Three million doses of Moderna #COVID19 vaccine donated by the … Read more
Geneva: On Tuesday, the heads of four major global organizations said that in order to bring the coronavirus under control, world leaders must make a “new commitment” to a more equal distribution of vaccines. Their joint concern is that the pandemic, which has already killed more than 3.5 million people globally, has been prolonged and … Read more
Scientists from Goethe University in Frankfurt claim that they have found the reason behind rare blood clots associated with COVID-19 vaccines of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). The serious blood clots events have occurred due to adenovirus vectors, as said by the German scientists. Adenovirus vectors are cold viruses used to deliver genetic instructions … Read more
Russian Federation has become the first country to introduce the coronavirus vaccine for animals. As per reports, the production of the bulk amount of the vaccination will start from April. The agriculture oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement that, “The vaccine called Carnivak-Cov had been tested since October on dogs, cats, mink, foxes and other animals and was … Read more
Pakistan sends coronavirus relief goods to its brother country the Islamic Republic of Iraq on orders from Prime Minister Imran Khan. The first aid was dispatched in the presence of the Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador of Iraq present at that moment. Furthermore, … Read more
Canada has approved the Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine along with AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Moderna vaccines. As per reports, Canada has ordered up to 38 million doses, which can be stored at very low temperatures from two to eight degrees Celsius (35-46 Fahrenheit). Health Canada chief medical officer Supriya Sharma said, “We concluded that there was strong evidence … Read more
The French health authorities recommend AstraZeneca’s Coronavirus vaccine for use but advised against giving it to people over 65. The decision made an earlier judgment by Swedish authorities, but it is different from the European Union (EU) which last week approved the vaccine for adults of all ages. France’s health authority said that pharmacists would … Read more
Punjab health minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid has on Wednesday (today) said that educational institutes may close again if Coronavirus SOPs will not be followed properly. According to the details, classes for 9th, 10th and intermediate have been resumed on January 18th. However, students of pre-primary and classes from 6 to 8 will be called to attend … Read more
HONG KONG/BEIJING: China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) said on Wednesday The data from large-scale, late-stage clinical trials for its unit’s COVID-19 vaccine are “better than expected”. Sinopharm’s unit China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has moved two vaccine applicants into Phase 3 clinical trials outside China in multiple countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain … Read more
China has approved human testing of two COVID-19 vaccines s to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese media reported on Today. According to the state news agency Xinhua, Beijing-based unit of Sinovac Biotech developed two vaccines in collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Biological Products under the affiliation of state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group. The coronavirus has killed … Read more
