Health

Tata Medical & Diagnostics is said to have started initial discussions with Moderna Inc for a partnership to launch its COVID-19 vaccine in India, the Economic Times reported on Monday. Tata could team up with the India's Council of…
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LONDON: The United Kingdom is racing to be among the first major countries to vaccinate its population - seen as the best way to exit the pandemic and get the economy going again. Latest figures show the United Kingdom has vaccinated…
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Pharma giant Pfizer tried to ease concerns in Europe about deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine as nations across the world doubled down on restrictions to fight the rampaging pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic is showing no signs of…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finally granted approval for the medical emergency use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. Special assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Healh Dr Faisal Sultan told Geo TV the Drug Regulatory Authority…
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India began one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes on Saturday, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 people in the country and torpedoed the economy. AFP looks at the numbers involved in the vast and…
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A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to start a highly politicised probe into the origins of the coronavirus, as China reported its first death from Covid-19 in eight months. The 10…
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has urged the people to follow precautionary measures for preventing the spread of COVID-19. In a message on Twitter Monday morning, Asad Umar referred to the devastation…
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The world's poorest countries can expect to start receiving their first Covid-19 vaccine doses between the end of January and mid-February, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Vaccination is already under way in some of the…
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan reported 80 deaths from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the country's total death toll to 9,330. A total of 37,206 COVID-19 tests were conducted across the country over the last 24 hours and of…
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan reported 105 deaths from Coronavirus in the last 24 hours - taking the nationwide tally of fatalities to 9, 010. This is the first time the daily death toll has crossed 100 since June 30. The NCOC data showed a…
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Men infected with Covid-19 are three times more likely to require intensive care than women and are at significantly higher risk of dying from the virus, scientists said Wednesday. Researchers analysed over three million confirmed…
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At least six Covid-19 patients died after "criminal negligence" resulted in a delayed supply of oxygen to a hospital in northwest Pakistan, officials said Sunday, as the country battles a second wave of the epidemic. More than 200…
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Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the biotech firm Regeneron are investigating whether technology developed for gene therapy can be used to make a nasal spray that will prevent infection with the new coronavirus. The idea…
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Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero will manufacture over 100 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine per year under the terms of a deal unveiled on Friday between it and Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund. The move,…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported more than 3,300 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest since July, as the country grapples with a second wave of infections that has forced it to reimpose tough social distancing measures. The daily…
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