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• 11 million more vaccines to arrive this month
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan secured contracts of 11 million doses for June, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan on Saturday announced that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country had gone down steadily.
While rubbishing news attributed to Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier that every person who has been vaccinated will die within two years, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) urged citizens to go ahead with their vaccinations to help control the spread of the deadly virus.
On the other hand, out of the 11 million doses of Sinopharm, Sinovac and Cansino vaccines which Pakistan is set to receive in the current month (June), one million doses of Sinopharm reached Islamabad on a special PIA flight on Saturday.
Hero of the other pandemic
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Medical professionals on the frontlines of the COVID-19 battle in this country should today pause just long enough to draw inspiration from a national hero whose pioneering work during another pandemic earned international acclaim.
Professor Courtenay Felix Bartholomew, a physician and medical researcher died yesterday at age 89, leaving behind a body of work that contributed significantly to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Aids).