KARACHI: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Tuesday that the first locally-processed coronavirus vaccine in Pakistan was nothing short of a revolution, adding that while vaccines were in high demand all over the world, the Chinese-produced ones were “the most preferred” in Pakistan.
He made these remarks while addressing the launch ceremony of the locally processed ‘PakVac’ vaccine in Islamabad. The PakVac vaccine has been developed by China’s state-run pharmaceutical company Cansino and is being brought to Pakistan in a concentrated form, where it is packaged at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad. Cansino was the first Chinese vaccine to have undergone clinical trials in Pakistan and was administered to around 18,000 people.
Courtesy Business Recorder, 2021
