On Wednesday, five hundred thousand doses of the ‘Sinovac’ vaccine has been transported from Beijing, before this also five hundred thousand doses were transported to Islamabad.
Pakistan government has decided to run a massive vaccination drive across the country and vaccinate seventy million Pakistanis.
Five hundred thousand ‘Sinopharm’ vaccine doses reached Islamabad from Beijing Capital International Airport on Wednesday via a special Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight.
Before this, five hundred thousand doses of the ‘Sinopharm’ vaccine were transported from China to Pakistan on Tuesday via PIA.
Last Sunday, a special flight PK-6852 transported a consignment of five hundred thousand doses of Sinovac vaccine from Beijing to Islamabad.
The government has decided to run a massive vaccination drive across Pakistan and vaccinate seventy million Pakistanis to fight with the COVID.
So far, almost five million three hundred thousand people have been vaccinated.
According to a Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson, the Chinese government has always attached great importance to Pakistan’s demand for vaccines to fight the virus and carried out close cooperation with Pakistan.
He said, “Chinese vaccines manufacturers have cooperated with Pakistan in the development and production of vaccines from the very beginning and will continue to export vaccines to Pakistan”.
In March, Pakistani health authorities had launched a countrywide vaccination drive with almost a million doses of Sinopharm vaccine provided by China, which was started with aged people generally over the age of 80 and frontline healthcare workers.
In the beginning, the government had to deal with vaccination hesitancy and a lack of vaccine supplies and had limited vaccines for people aged thirty or over.
On 1st February, Pakistan received its first COVID-19 vaccine consignment after a military aircraft transported it from China.
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