Pakistan’s Perspective on Covid-19 Vaccines

Abstract

As of May 10, 2021, the entire planet has reported approximately 188 million COVID-19 cases, with 2.54 million fatalities. Initially, lockdowns and softening measures have been thrown into turmoil throughout the world since the outbreak. Our social life will only return to normal once an appropriate vaccine is produced and proper authorized preventive techniques are implemented. To tackle this pandemic, governments and health experts all around the globe are experimenting with a range of measures and preventative strategies. Certain nations are considered to be more successful than others in terms of providing safety to their inhabitants and increasing their economic activities. A plethora of vaccinations have been produced, and a research anthology has been published. However, medical personnel are still searching for a viable treatment to limit this pandemic. Till date, only 5 vaccines have been approved by WHO for emergency use that includes Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson. Currently, confusing information about the COVID-19 vaccination is being disseminated across the world. During health emergency, rumors spread and caused panic, insanity, and anxiety. SARS-CoV-2 strains, on the other hand, are constantly appearing over the world. This article provides a Pakistan’s perspective towards COVID-19 vaccines with an updated review.

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Covid-19 in Different Universities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

“…Millions of people were infected by COVID-19 worldwide, since it first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 [1]. January 30, 2020, was the day when the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), asking governments to take rapid and decisive measures against the virus [2,3]. Unlike previous corona outbreaks [4], this extremely infectious zoonotic virus [5,6] from an unknown animal source has gone from a local flu-related severe acute respiratory syndrome [4,7] to a pandemic endangering millions of lives in a matter of weeks.…”