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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 on the orders of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan to collate, analyze, and process information received from all provinces ...
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 ...
1975: Measles vaccination for 1 year old children. 1975: Rubella vaccination for 11–13 years old girls and seronegative mothers. 1982: Two doses of MMR vaccination at 14–18 months and 6 years of age were introduced in the national childhood vaccination programme. 2009: Rotavirus vaccine introduced at 2, 3 and 5 months to all children ...
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.
According to latest statistics, Pakistan spends 2.95% of its GDP on health (2020). [5] Pakistan per capita income (PPP current international $,) is 6.437.2 in 2022 [6] and the current health expenditure per capita (current US$) is 38.18. [7] The total adult literacy rate in Pakistan is 58% (2019) [7] and primary school enrollment is 68% (2018). [7]
The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in May 1974 with the objective to vaccinate children throughout the world. Ten years later, in 1984, the WHO established a standardized vaccination schedule for the EPI vaccines: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP), oral ...
Testing statistics. The two charts below display historical COVID-19 testing data since 3 April 2020, when reliable testing data became available in Pakistan. The first chart covers raw data of numbers of cumulative tests, new tests, and cumulative confirmed cases and new confirmed case counts for comparison with testing numbers.
[22] [23] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [22] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...