COVID-19 vaccine by AstraZeneca has been approved for emergency use in Pakistan. More than a million doses of Sinopharm’s vaccine has been approved. The country’s technical committee has cleared and recommended the vaccine to the drug registration board that is considering Sputnik’s application, said Akhtar Abbas Khan, spokesperson for Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan. #Source
In all likelihood, double dose of Sputnik V in Pakistan would cost double the rates at which it is available in India. The registration board of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) in its 299th meeting on Friday, granted emergency use authorization to Russian made COVID-19 vaccine Gam-COVID-Vac, whose trade name is Sputnik V. A local pharmaceutical firm, AGP Limited had applied for registration, marketing and distribution of the vaccine in Pakistan, an official of the DRAP told The News on Saturday. #Source