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oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
Islamabad, Apr 14: A senior Pakistani official has said that the country was working to develop its own single-dose coronavirus vaccine with China’s support, a media report said on Wednesday.
Executive Director of National Institute of Health (NIH), Major General Aamer Ikram, said this during a briefing to the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on National Health Services on Tuesday, The Express Tribune reported.
“We are going to make a single-dose vaccine for COVID-19. We conducted the clinical trial of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine CanSinoBio in Pakistan,” he said. Later talking to the media, Ikram said Pakistan was among the first countries to take part in the clinical trial of CanSinoBio vaccine.
He said Pakistan had requested China to transfer the technology for the vaccine and the raw material for the vaccine is going to arrive this month. “We hope that we…