Covid vaccine

Move likely to boost Canadian travel industry, already booming after months of lull during the pandemic

57% of parents refuse to allow vaccination of children aged 5-12 years

Vaccine available at all centres free of cost; guidelines mandate both doses of vaccine necessary

Moderna alleges Pfizer/BioNTech copied mRNA technology that it had patented between 2010 and 2016

Protesting medics continue to demand nine months of wages

Federal govt alone procured vaccines worth almost Rs250 billion, says Premier Imran Khan

The vaccine compulsory mandate will apply to people 14 years and above

Says its two-dose vaccine generated virus-neutralising antibodies in children

Moderna's vaccine was 95% effective at preventing hospitalization compared with 80% for Pfizer, 60% for J&J

Funding will focus on manufacturers of inputs used in vaccine production, facilities that package vaccine vials

National caseload of the global pandemic tops 1.1m

National flag carrier has already delivered more than 35 million doses

Those jabbed with Sinopharm, Sinovac will be accepted with additional dose of one of four vaccines approved by Kingdom

Apex Committee meeting vows to take measures to control fourth wave of pandemic

Set to monitor the immune response of 900 children “in preparation to vaccinate children in the near future”

India leads and is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and vaccine shortage across the region.

Pakistan has received over 13m doses of Sinopharm, Sinovac and CanSino vaccines so far, according to sources

NCOC chief says single-day vaccination capacity exceeds 200,000 jabs

She said Saif and her use the cartoon clip to help Taimur understand coronavirus

Fresh consignment in addition to one million doses transported by PIA on April 25, says spokesperson

China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan say ‘vaccine nationalism’ to hinder global efforts to defeat pandemic

Probability of unique mutation rises when virus spreads more, says infectious disease expert

The country has so far recorded more than 11.7 million Covid-19 cases and over 160,000 deaths

Health officials say GAVI will provide 16m free doses of AstraZeneca to inoculate 45m people

The continent scrambles to secure doses and start immunising vulnerable groups

First 7 million doses of Oxford-developed AstraZeneca vaccines expected to arrive in Pakistan before April

Iran launched a vaccination drive against Covid-19, focussing initially on hospital intensive care personnel

China has once again proven its everlasting friendship towards Pakistan, says Qureshi

NCOC makes arrangements for the vaccine's storage in Islamabad, transportation to provinces.

Argentine pontiff previously spoke of importance of jab in fight against Covid-19

Vaccine will be provided free of charge to frontline workers in first quarter of 2021, says federal minister

Mass vaccination across European Union, home to almost 450m people, would be a crucial step towards ending pandemic

Use of such vaccines permitted as long as there were no alternatives, Vatican tells Roman Catholics

Officials did not outline what the specific manufacturing challenges were

Trials will start by end of the year and Russia wants to jointly produce new vaccine if it is proven to be effective

Pfizer is also studying its vaccine candidate in participants as young as 12

The vaccine is among the three most advanced candidates from China in terms of development

'It’s the best early birthday present I could wish for', said Margaret

Islamabad likely to procure doses from more than one source, says top health official

Company says its coronavirus vaccine reached critical milestones in clinical trials in Asia and Latin America

Haryana home minister urges those who had come in close contact with him to get themselves tested

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the programme would begin early next week

Hackers posed as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers, sources say

Healthcare workers and other high-risk people could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent

UNICEF, international body's arm for humanitarian aid to children, to stockpile 520 million syringes

Remarks came after international biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca stopped vaccine trials in four countries

CNBG’s Phase 3 trials are expected to involve 50,000 people in about 10 countries, says company official

That said it would be unfair to blame the entire phenomenon on ‘ill-informed masses’

Russia says world’s first vaccine for coronavirus will be rolled out by the end of this month

Russia maintains its will to share information about coronavirus vaccine, say Russian officials