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The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) (April 2020-April 2022) was the principal body governing the policies and implementation of the national COVID-19 effort of Pakistan. It was formed in April 2020 ( 2020-04 ) on the orders of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan to collate, analyze, and process information received from all ...
On May 16, 2014, Lisa Monaco responded that vaccine programs would be excluded from espionage: [11] [12] I wanted to inform you that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) directed in August 2013 that the agency make no operational use of vaccination programs, which includes vaccination workers.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020, when two cases were recorded (a student in Karachi who had just returned from Iran and another person in the Islamabad ...
Pakistan Red Crescent is highly regarded in Pakistan by its respective stakeholders and the public and has over the years been well known for saving lives and strengthening recovery in disasters, [7] contributing towards healthy living, [8] and promoting social cohesion in vulnerable communities. [9]
Since the establishment of EPI in1974, vaccination has prevented 154 million deaths, among which 146 million are in children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million are in infants younger than 1 year. Measles vaccination is the single greatest contributor of lives saved by vaccination, preventing 93.7 million deaths out of total 154 million ...
1926 – First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) by Leila Denmark. 1932 – First vaccine for yellow fever by Max Theiler and Jean Laigret. 1937 – First vaccine for typhus by Rudolf Weigl, Ludwik Fleck and Hans Zinsser. 1937 – First vaccine for influenza by Anatol Smorodintsev [11] 1940 – First vaccine for anthrax.
Pakistan is one of the five most affected countries in the world due to climate change from the year 1999–2018. [101] Pakistan's vulnerability to climate change is a result of its geographic location, heavy reliance on agriculture and water resources, limited adaptive capacity among its people, and an inadequate emergency preparedness system ...
Directorate of Malaria Control is a separate cell in ministry to co-ordinate country-wide efforts for implementation of Roll Back Malaria initiative for 50% reduction in the malaria burden in Pakistan by the year 2010. By the year 2015 >70% of the high risk population of Pakistan having access and using effective malaria prevention and ...