Pakistan has set a new record of administering 383,000 COVID-19 vaccine in a single day. This was announced by the National Command and Operation Centre head Asad Umar on Sunday.
He tweeted, “On Saturday, the country set a new record of administering over 383,000 vaccines in a day, he tweeted on Sunday. The number of registrants is also steadily increasing and 11.663 million people have registered.”
More than 7m people have been vaccinated across the country so far.
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Pakistan on Friday received 100,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine via COVAX. Shipments of Pfizer diluents and syringes will be arriving over the next two days. The vaccines will be used for the Government of Pakistan’s ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
The shipment of vaccines came with the collaboration of UNICEF South Asia and the Vaccine Alliance of the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement, UNICEF commended Pakistan’s effort and the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination Islamabad for the successful rollout of the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
In the last 24 hours, Pakistan reported 2,697 new COVID-19 infections while 56 people lost their lives, according to the latest statistics released by NCOC.
The positivity ratio in the country was recorded at 4.81 per cent.
