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2021-04-18 15:35:49 GMT2021-04-18 23:35:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Misbah Saba Malik
ISLAMABAD, April 18 (Xinhua) Commenting on China recording an 18.3 percent GDP growth year on year in the first quarter (Q1), Pakistani experts said persistent efforts, long-term policies and hard work have been the driving forces behind the achievement.
The result marked a V-shaped growth for China s gross domestic product as compared to a 6.8 percent contraction year on year in Q1 2020. The GDP rise is not a one-year or one-day event, but there is a history of hard work and persistent efforts for the past many decades, Muhammad Asif Noor, director of the Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies, Islamabad said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
The first batch of China s Sinopharm vaccines is due to arrive in Cambodia on Sunday to help launch an inoculation drive against COVID-19 starting from the upcoming Wednesday.
China has been racing to help Asian countries fight the coronavirus pandemic with home-developed COVID-19 vaccines, honoring its commitment to making vaccines a global public good once available.
Pakistan has become the first country to receive China s vaccine aid after a batch of doses developed by China s Sinopharm arrived in the country on Monday from Beijing via a special Pakistan Air Force aircraft.
With over half a million infections and more than 11,000 deaths, the South Asian country is struggling against the second wave of the deadly virus.
2020-12-31 12:36:57 GMT2020-12-31 20:36:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Misbah Saba Malik
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) Pakistan has decided to procure vaccine from China s state owned company Sinopharm because of its effectiveness and safety to fight against the COVID-19 virus, the country s federal minister for science and technology said on Thursday.
The availability of the vaccine and its cost effectiveness as compared to available vaccines from other countries are also the main factors for Pakistan to pre-book it, Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain told Xinhua through a telephone interview. We were checking vaccines from different countries before taking the final decision of pre-booking. Like other companies, Sinopharm also shared its data with Pakistan, and we chose it after finding it effective on the virus, and safe on human health, he said.
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