{"id":13285,"date":"2021-01-22T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T10:41:02","slug":"china-to-gift-pakistan-500k-corona-vaccine-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/china-to-gift-pakistan-500k-corona-vaccine-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"China to gift Pakistan 500K Corona vaccine doses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan said Thursday it will receive half-a-million free doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm Corona vaccine by January 31. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement at a news conference, saying his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, shared the \u201cgood news\u201d in a phone call between the two officials. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cHe told me, \u2018Send your aircraft and immediately airlift this drug.\u2019 So, this is a welcome news for us. And we will, God willing, succeed in saving many lives,\u201d Qureshi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that the Chinese vaccine is being gifted to Islamabad as a \u201cgoodwill gesture\u201d from Beijing \u201cin view of the all-weather strategic relationship\u201d between the two countries. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Pakistan\u2019s drug regulator approved the Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use on Monday. China approved the drug earlier this month, which is also in use in several countries, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>The Pakistani regulator last week also authorized the use of AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine developed with Oxford University. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan said Thursday it will receive half-a-million free doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm Corona vaccine by January 31. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement at a news conference, saying his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, shared the \u201cgood news\u201d in a phone call between the two officials. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cHe told me, \u2018Send your aircraft and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}