“While we look forward to the clinical trial results in India, we believe that manufacturing the product locally is crucial to enable swift access to patients,” said B. Murali Krishna Reddy, Hetero’s director of international marketing.
NCOC states Peshawar has the highest percentage of COVID-19 positive cases with 19.65% followed by Karachi with 17.73%. Hyderabad has been rated at third place with 16.32%.
Now that we've found what looks like a better efficacy we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional study.
The news comes as AstraZeneca faces questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy US and EU regulatory approval.
The district administration also urged the people to adopt standard operating procedures (SOPs) as preventive measures were the only way to curb the contagion.
“Sindh reported 1402 new cases when 10585 tests were performed during 24 hours,” said Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while giving daily briefing on the pandemic.
He said 252 big cases had reached their logical ends during the one year, adding he requested to the courts for speedy trials of the National Accountability Bureau and Anti Corruption cases.
According to daily situation report shared by Deputy Commissioner office, as many as 8271 patients have been recovered so far after treatment, out of the total 9833 confirmed cases.
He advised the citizens to continue following the social distancing, use of mask and other precautionary measures to stop increasing local transmission of COVID-19 in the city.