vaccine

India handed over doses as part of its commitment to 'neighbourhood first policy,' says official

Serum Institute of India is producing millions of doses of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine

Qureshi says the batch will be provided free of charge by end January

As many states struggle to meet targets partly due to fears over possible side-effects

Dr Sultan says talks in an advanced stage with two companies

'I'm praying Pakistan gets vaccines soon. Please get vaccinated - for yourself and your loved ones,' the actor urged

Minister who was among thousands, defying SOPs, to consume syrup made by a 'holy man' was hospitalised with the virus

39 million doses of coronavirus vaccines had been administered so far in at least 49 higher income countries

Petitioner claims the vaccine is being used to implant microchips in people and alter their DNA

‘Me-first approach’ left the world’s poorest and most vulnerable at risk, says Tedros Adhanom

Authorities have given emergency-use approval for two vaccines - Oxford-AstraZeneca and the homegrown "Covaxin"

Pechucho says provinces should be allowed to purchase two vaccines approved by DRAP

Manish Kumar receives his shot at Delhi’s All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, one of 3,006 vaccination centres

Actor praised the efforts of a team of women walking in blankets of snow to deliver the vaccine

Turkish president urges other politicians to endorse the vaccine

China is also working to provide this vaccine to Pakistan in a couple of weeks

The drive aims to inoculate 181.5 million people

Planning Minister Asad Umar urges precaution against third wave

First to get vaccine will be 30 million health workers, followed by about 270 million older than 50

Britain aims to vaccinate around 14 million people by the middle of February

Scientists say newly developed vaccines should be equally effective against both variants

British scientists also expressed concern that vaccines may not be able to protect against the new variant

Exempts it from import duty, PPRA rules

Scams include emails, robocallers promising entry to supposedly secret lists for early vaccine

British PM Boris Johnson says hospitals under more pressure from Covid than any time since the start of pandemic

We in Pakistan should recognise that our rollout will hit serious roadblocks

Doctor in southeastern Turkey received 1st dose of CoronaVac last month

Trial participants who received the placebo will have two doses of the investigational vaccine reserved for them

Initially, 125,000 health workers will be inoculated

India wants to start administering the vaccine soon, most likely by Wednesday, say sources

AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy in preventing infections was 70.4%, compared with Pfizer/BioNTech's efficacy of 95%

Matthew went to a drive-up hospital testing site and tested positive for Covid-19 the day after Christmas

Pakistan announces a 1.2 million dose purchase deal with Sinopharm

NCOC firms up immunisation management system as nationwide Covid death toll tops 10,000

This is the challenge we must rise to in the New Year, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general

Pakistan's Covid-19 positivity ratio stands at 5.92 per cent

UK battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus

Singapore expects to have enough vaccine doses for all 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021

More than one million people have so far contracted Covid-19 in Iran, with over 54,000 deaths

Russia has been asking Covid-19 patients to donate blood plasma, which is rich in antibodies, for research

Surveys have pointed to high levels of hesitancy towards inoculation in countries from France to Poland

The vaccine is a hope for a return to normal from a pandemic that killed 1.76 million people worldwide

Russia launched a voluntary vaccination programme with the Russia-made Sputnik V vaccine earlier in December

Govt hopes to give the first dose of Oxford or the Pfizer vaccine to 2 million people over the next two weeks

US President Donald Trump has imposed wave after wave of sanctions on the Islamic republic since 2018

PM’s aide says no compromise will be made on efficacy and quality of vaccine

A week into the massive inoculation campaign

Mexico has registered 119,495 deaths linked to the virus and 1.33 million infections, according to official figures

Punjab records the highest number of deaths during the past 24 hours, followed by Sindh

EU countries including Germany, Austria and Italy say they plan to start vaccinations from Dec 27