Govt Planning to Vaccinate 100 Million People in 2021: Fawad Chaudhry

The federal government plans to vaccinate over 100 million citizens against COVID-19 disease in the long term, Federal Minister for Information, Fawad Chaudhry, has revealed.

While virtually addressing a seminar, the Minister said that over 20 million citizens will be vaccinated in the short term while 70 million citizens will be inoculated before the end of the year.

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The countrywide mass vaccination campaign is progressing steadily as 1.8 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far since February.

He added that China and Russia remain the only two sources of COVID-19 vaccines for Pakistan because the US and India have imposed a ban on the export of COVID-19 vaccines.

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The federal government has ordered 30.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from three Chinese pharmaceutical companies that will soon reach Pakistan to augment the ongoing mass vaccination drive.

Pakistan has purchased 20 million doses of CanSinoBIO’s single-dose vaccine, 5.5 million doses of Sinopharm’s vaccine, and 5 million doses of Sinovac’s vaccine, the Minister concluded.