Sindh says coronavirus vaccine to be available for all starting May 16
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Sunday May 09, 2021
All people will be able to get themselves vaccinated in Sindh starting May 16, says Sindh health minister.
Says Sindh govt aims to vaccinate 70 million people by December this year.
Says new vaccination centres will continue to open as more vaccine doses continue to arrive.
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho on Sunday announced that the coronavirus vaccine will be available to all people in the province starting May 16, 2021,
Geo News reported.
Speaking about the ongoing vaccination drive in the province, Dr Pechuho said that as vaccine doses continue to arrive in Pakistan, the government will keep opening new inoculation centres to facilitate the masses.
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday warned residents that they must take extra precaution in the wake of first the UK and now the South African and Brazilian coronavirus.
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May 1, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday warned residents that they must take extra precaution in the wake of first the UK and now the South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants being detected in the province.
In a video message released by the Health and Population Welfare Department of Sindh, Dr Pechuho said that in a genomic study carried out by Aga Khan University Hospital of 13 samples, 10 were found to have the UK variant, one had the South African variant and one had the Brazilian variant. So you can understand the nature of the emergency, the pressure that it can cause on hospitals. The UK variant is one that spreads very fast. It has an infectivity rate of 60 percent and a fatality rate of 68 percent, she said, adding that the fatality rates of the South African and Brazilian variants are also very high .
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May 1, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho on Friday warned residents that they must take extra precaution in the wake of first the British and now the South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants being detected in the province.
In a video message released by the Health and Population Welfare Department of Sindh, Dr Pechuho said that in a genomic study carried out by Aga Khan University Hospital of 13 samples, 10 were found to have the UK variant, one had the South African variant and one had the Brazilian variant.
“So you can understand the nature of the emergency, the pressure that it can cause on hospitals. The UK variant is one that spreads very fast. It has an infectivity rate of 60 percent and a fatality rate of 68 percent,” she said, adding that the fatality rates of the South African and Brazilian variants are also “very high”.
After UK, South African and Brazilian variants have entered Sindh: Dr Azra Pechuho
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Pechuho issuing a video statement to the people of Sindh, on April 30, 2021. Screengrab from video courtesy Health and Population Welfare Department, Sindh
Sindh health minster warns residents that after the UK coronavirus variant, the South African and Brazilian variants have also been detected in the province.
Warns the latter two are not vaccine responsive and so someone who catches COVID-19 via one of these strains is likely to fall very ill.
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