Tag: #Quarantine
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USA Approved Low Cost Corona Vaccine
Washington, Dec 30 (AFP/APP): The United States is expected to approve the low-cost AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine in April, a senior official said, more than three months after Britain’s green light on Wednesday. Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed, the military-led US effort for vaccines, told reporters that US trials and assessments would be…
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Corona Vaccine in Ukraine
Kiev, Dec 30 (AFP/APP): Ukraine said Wednesday it agreed to purchase nearly two million doses of the Chinese-developed CoronaVac coronavirus jab, the post-Soviet country’s first commercial contract to purchase a vaccine. Kiev is due to receive its first batch of 700,000 doses within one month after the vaccine is registered either in China or elsewhere,…
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What are the latest test reports of CM Buzdar?
Lahore, 30th December: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar is recovering in a positive manner. According to the news of Baaghi TV, Sardar Usman Buzdar, who had fallen victim to the pandemic has shown encouraging recovery, according to his health officials. As per the latest reports, several medical tests and a CT scan had been conducted…
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Covid Vaccine in Argentina
Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina on Tuesday launched a Covid-19 vaccination campaign with the Sputnik V shots developed by Russia, the government said. It is the first country in the Americas to use this vaccine against the pandemic. The vaccination drive began simultaneously around the country with frontline healthcare workers given priority, Health Minister…
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Corona Cases in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27 (APP): The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases in Pakistan on Sunday reached 39,329 with 1,853 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 1,643 people recovered from the Coronavirus during the last 24 hours. Fifty-Eight corona patients, 53 of whom were under treatment in hospital and Five in their…
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First Person Vaccinated Against Covid-19
Madrid, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): A 96-year-old living in a care home in central Spain became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Sunday, in an event broadcast by national television. She felt “nothing” from the shot, Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sanchez said with a smile after being injected. With her short…
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Fawad Chaudhry on Corona Vaccine
LAHORE, Dec 27 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that the government will try its best to cover a big chunk of the population with free-of-cost coronavirus vaccine. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he said that private companies would be given permission to import coronavirus vaccine. He…
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Covid Vaccine Developed in UK
London, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): The Covid-19 vaccine developed by the British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, the company’s chief executive said on Sunday. The vaccine, which is currently being evaluated by Britain’s independent medicines regulator, provides “100 percent protection” against severe Covid disease requiring hospitalization,…
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Journalist Arrested for Talking About Corona Vaccine
Amman, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Jordan has arrested a journalist over an article alleging the coronavirus vaccine had arrived in the kingdom and that officials had received the jab, a judicial source said Saturday. “The state security court prosecutor ordered the arrest Thursday of journalist Jamal Haddad, editor of news website Al-Wakaai, for writing that government…
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Fire in Cairo Killed 7 Patients
Cairo, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said. The blaze in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Obour district, on the outskirts of Cairo, also injured five other people, the sources said. It was not immediately clear what…