Islamabad: Many nations have already started vaccination drive against coronavirus. Pakistan on Saturday also granted approval for the emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca's corona vaccine.
Talking to Geo News, Dr Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to Pak PM Imran Khan on Health, confirmed that the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has authorised the emergency use of the vaccine.
Two days ago, of Oxford-AstraZeneca had sought from Pakistani authorities to get its Covid-19 vaccine registered in the country. A local pharmaceutical company has submitted AstraZeneca's vaccine data to DRAP, they informed.The United Kingdom was the first to approve the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine. The clinical trials of the vaccines showed the dosage to be safe and effective at preventing symptomatic corona, with no severe cases and no hospitalisations more than 14 days after the second dose.
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