Pakistan, Dec. 24 -- With the Covid-19 caseload reaching a new peak around the globe in the beginning of December, there was a sigh of relief on December 8 when the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine developed by American drug manufacture Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech (Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine) began in the United Kingdom's 50 hospital hubs as part of the largest immunization program in British History.

On December 11, the United States Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the same vaccine to halt the pandemic march in the U.S. which has already killed more than 300,000 Americans. The first doses were administered beginning on December 14 It is heartening to see the launch of the vaccine roll-out. It is disturbing, on th...