Tag: COVID-19 vaccine

  • Pakistan fully vaccinates 33% of its eligible population against covid-19

    Pakistan fully vaccinates 33% of its eligible population against covid-19

    Pakistan has vaccinated 33 per cent of the eligible population against Covid-19, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) stated in a tweet.

    “33% of Pakistan’s eligible population has been fully vaccinated!! If you are still unvaccinated, please get your dose now! Stay safe!,” the tweet by the center read.

    As of today, the total number of vaccines administered across the country is 124,054,300.

    The NCOC has also approved a booster shot of Covid-19 vaccines for healthcare workers, those aged over 50 years, and immunocompromised people.

    Read more- NCOC approves booster shot for healthcare workers, those over 50 and immunocompromised people

    A new variant of the coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from South Africa on November 24. It was declared a new variant “of concern” and named it Omicron. The new variant has raised alarm in the entire world, including Pakistan.

    Read more- Deadly Omicron-new variant of Covid, raises alarm

  • Nawaz Sharif’s late wife Kulsoom’s fake vaccination entry

    Nawaz Sharif’s late wife Kulsoom’s fake vaccination entry

    After former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s fake coronavirus vaccination entry, a fake Covid vaccination entry was made under his late wife Kulsoom Nawaz’s name, reports Geo News.

    As per details, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz got her first dose of Sinovac on October 5. The second dose is scheduled for November 6.

    Begum Kulsoom Nawaz passed away in September 2018 due to cancer.

    Another fake Covid vaccination entry was also made under former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s name as well. Dar is currently in London.

    He was registered in Multan Health Unit for a single Sinovac dose.

    The Primary and Secondary Health Care Department Punjab has constituted a two-member committee to investigate the matter within the next 24 hours.

  • Govt to vaccinate 12-year-old children

    Govt to vaccinate 12-year-old children

    National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has decided to vaccinate 12-year-old children. The decision was taken in a meeting on Tuesday (today).

    Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Asad Umar, took to Twitter to announce the news.

    “In today’s NCOC meeting decided to start vaccination of all 12 years and older. Special drive will be run for vaccination at schools to make it easier for children to be vaccinated,” the minister wrote in a tweet.

    Pakistan has reported 1,400 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 1,241,825 cases. The country has reported 27,638 deaths so far.

  • No vaccine, no motorway

    The National Highways & Motorway Police (NHMP) have decided that after September 15, unvaccinated people will not be allowed to travel via motorway.

    Amid the current fourth wave of Covid-19, the government and its departments have speeded up vaccination efforts across the country.

    The NHMP announced on Thursday that people should “get ready” and “get vaccinated” before September 15 and have their vaccination certificates with them if they want to travel on the motorway.

    Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar along with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Faisal Sultan announced the new restrictions for unvaccinated people.

    Umar said that a single dose of vaccine is necessary for travelling on the motorway after September 15. He added that after October, no one will be allowed to use the motorways without vaccination.

    The minister also said that unvaccinated people will not be allowed to use public transport after October 15.

    Earlier, it was also announced that vaccination for domestic air travel will be compulsory after September 30.

  • Get vaccinated, save your job: CNN fires unvaccinated employees

    American news channel CNN fired three employees for entering its New York headquarters without getting a Corona vaccination.

    CNN Cheif Jeff Zucker sent a memo to its employees saying that vaccination was necessary and no negligence would be tolerated.

    “All three have been terminated. Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this,” added the memo. “You need to be vaccinated to come to the office. And you need to be vaccinated to work in the field, with other employees, regardless of whether you enter an office or not. Period.”

    The United States (US) is one of the world’s most affected countries by the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than 30 million people infected and more than 600,000 dead.

    Vaccination is mandatory to control the virus worldwide. 

    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Public sector and military hospitals should be open to general public: Justice Qazi Faez Isa
    
			
    Public sector and military hospitals should be open to general public: Justice Qazi Faez Isa
    
			
    Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa has suggested that public sector and military hospitals should be open to the general public, reported Dawn.
    

    Justice Isa had recently contracted Covid-19 despite being vaccinated. His statement comes in relevance to the grave situation with the surging cases of Covid-19 in Pakistan.
    

    In a statement, Justice Isa said: “Since we are in a situation no less grave than a war, all public sector hospitals, including combined military hospitals and other armed forces hospitals, should be opened immediately to serve the people.”
    

    “Otherwise, class and social divides will further be exacerbated and people continue to suffer and die because of an unequal system,” said Justice Isa.
    

     “My wife and I were one of the initial lucky few in the country who were fully vaccinated as both of us were above 60; courtesy of the Chinese government. We took every precaution, including always wearing masks in public places, yet contracted the highly infectious Delta variant of the disease,” read the statement.
    

    “Even with the vaccination, I still had to be hospitalised. I am receiving excellent treatment from very competent doctors and attendants at the Quaid-i-Azam International Hospital. Such treatment is not within the reach of most [people],” added Justice Isa. 
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Australian man escapes quarantine using bedsheets
    
			
    Australian man escapes quarantine using bedsheets
    
			
    A man in Perth, Australia, escaped mandatory quarantine in a hotel room by using a rope made of tied together bedsheets from a fourth-floor window, reports Reuters.
    

    He arrived in Perth from Brisbane but was told to leave the state within 48 hours, failing to get a mandatory pass before travel, and was sent to a hotel. However, he fled in the middle of the night but was caught and charged with failure to comply with a direction and providing false information.
    

    Last week, the Western Australia Police Force shared images on their official Facebook account, showing his escape strategy, and informed that he was arrested later and tested Covid-19 negative. 
    

    

    As per reports, Travis Jay Myles appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court via an audio link. The report added that he did not apply for bail and will remain in custody until early August when his 14-day quarantine period ends.
    

    G2G passes registration and declaration prior to entry is mandatory for all travelers in Western Australia. The process will declare where the individual has been in the 14 days before their entry and whether they have any Covid symptoms or not. 
    

    More than half of Australia is in lockdown and restrictions have been imposed to stop the spread of the Delta variant.
    

    Moreover, the vaccination process is quite slow as only 11 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. The main cause of this is that Australians under 60 are advised to get the Pfizer vaccine, but supplies are very limited.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Covid-19 vaccine shortage is temporary, says Dr Faisal Sultan
    
			
    Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan while addressing a press conferences said that the government has secured sufficient vaccine doses in the month of June to ramp up the vaccination drive in the country, Associated Press of Pakistan has reported.
    

    “There are more than 2,000 vaccination centres in the country and the number of visitors varies. So there may be a shortage of vaccines in some centres,” he said, adding that the shortage of vaccine in some centres is only temporary. 
    

    Dr Faisal further said, “We have two million doses available and vaccination will continue to protect citizens from carrying coronavirus.” He assured that the vaccine situation would improve after June 20 as more vaccines would reach Pakistan by then.
    

    

    


    

    

    

    As per the national tally on Wednesday, total active Covid-19 cases were 39,905, while 1,038 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 2,016 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Pakistan allows AstraZeneca vaccine for individuals under 40
    
			
    The Pakistan government has revised guidelines for AstraZeneca vaccines and allowed citizens who are 18 or older to get the jab which was earlier restricted to those aged over 40, Reuters has reported. 
    

    Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan while talking to Geo News, said that Pakistanis who are travelling to Saudi Arabia can get the Oxford vaccine after showing their documents.
    

    Saudi Arabia has approved four Covid-19 vaccines for those who want to avoid quarantine, namely AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson.
    

    As of June 15, the total number of vaccines administered in Pakistan has reached 12,067,171.
    

    

    


    

    

    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Expats protest, demand Pfizer vaccines ‘only’
    
			
    Expats protest, demand Pfizer vaccines ‘only’
    
			
    Several overseas Pakistanis protested outside the Mass Vaccination Centre at F-9 Park in Islamabad, on Monday. The expats demanded that they should only be administered the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer, reports The Express Tribune. 
    

    The staff present at the vaccination centre stated that they could only administer the vaccine provided by the government which was not what the expats were demanding.
    

    As a result of this, expats protested by holding placards and demanded that the prime minister should ensure the availability of Pfizer vaccine for them.
    

    They maintained that Overseas Pakistanis are a source of billions of dollars coming into the country yet they are being humiliated over a vaccine. They demanded a date be announced for them so that they could get vaccinated.
    

    Earlier, it had issued guidelines that only a limited amount of Pfizer vaccine was available in Pakistan, therefore, only Haj pilgrims and student and work visa holders for foreign countries would be immunised with it.