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    Pakistan allows AstraZeneca shot for under 40s to help its expatriates

    15 Jun 2021

    Pakistan has lifted a rule barring the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for people below 40 years old, in a bid to help inoculate people who need to travel for education or jobs abroad, particularly Saudi Arabia, a health official said.

    Covid crisis can impact child nutrition in India: UNICEF

    08 May 2021

    With half the children under five in India being malnourished, the present Covid-19 crisis could further impact child nutrition and service delivery across the country that is in the grip of a ferocious second wave, said the UN Children's Fund UNICEF.

    Karachi launches door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination campaign for women

    07 Jan 2022

    "We have found that a sizable population of housewives are unvaccinated, and they socialise and attend weddings without face masks,” Qasim Siraj Soomro, parliamentary secretary health of the Sindh provincial government, said.

    Arrest unvaccinated if they go outdoors, orders Philippines' President Duterte

    07 Jan 2022

    The government tightened restrictions in Manila and several provinces and cities this week. Unvaccinated people among the capital's 13 million people were ordered to stay home, after infection numbers tripled in the last two days.

    Kuwait to allow entry of fully vaccinated foreigners from Aug.1

    17 Jun 2021

    Government spokesman Tareq Al Mizrem said foreign travellers will need to have been fully inoculated with one of the four vaccines that the Gulf country has approved — Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

    These are the five most effective vaccines approved in the UAE against COVID-19

    03 Aug 2021

    The UAE authorities said that the COVID-19 vaccines available in the country that have proven effective in reducing infection rates, though not preventing it completely and thus urged everyone to keep following the precautionary measures.

    Single dose CanSino to be available by May end in Pakistan

    24 May 2021

    The National Institute of Health (NIH) of Islamabad has begun the production of a single-dose Chinese coronavirus vaccine believing the initiative will help meet Pakistan's vaccine needs.

    Pakistan to start COVID-19 vaccination registration for people aged 30-39 on May 16

    12 May 2021

    "As vaccine supply continues to improve and vaccination capacity gets enhanced in all federating units, we continue to expand the categories of those who are eligible to get vaccinated," Umar said on Twitter.

    US backs move on vaccine patent waiver, gains praise; coronavirus spreads to rural India

    06 May 2021

    Hopes that India's rampaging second wave of COVID-19 is peaking were set back on Thursday as record daily infections and deaths were reported and as the virus spread from cities to villages that were poorly equipped to cope.

    Free beer, doughnuts and baseball to promote COVID-19 vaccines in US

    06 May 2021

    Some 56 per cent of American adults — more than 145 million people — have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but the pace of vaccination has been slowing lately.

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