The CanSino vaccine will go through a rigorous quality control checks at NIH, says NCOC chief
PHOTO: COURTESY/@Asad Umar
Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, who is also the chief of the National Command and Control Centre (NCOC), on Friday said that the first batch of homemade Covid-19 vaccine will be available by the end of May.
Pakistan started the vaccination campaign in February with doses donated by the government of China. The campaign started with frontline healthcare workers and then inoculation of the senior citizens in the second phase.
The government now plans to open registration for Covid-19 vaccination for all citizens after Eidul Fitr.
Pakistan to make single-dose Covid vaccine
Chinese team to help scientists, NIH official tells NA penal
SAPM on Health Dr Faisal Sultan talking to media on the occasion of receiving vaccine at Nur Khan Airbase on March 31, 2021. PHOTO: PID
ISLAMABAD:
An official told a National Assembly panel on Tuesday that the National Institute of Health (NIH) is going to make Pakistan’s own single-dose coronavirus vaccine soon. “We are going to make a single-dose vaccine for Covid-19,” NIH Executive Director Major General Aamer Ikram told the NA Standing Committee on National Health Services. “We conducted the clinical trial of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine CanSinoBio in Pakistan.