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Pakistan decides to import Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine: Fawad Chaudhry
1.2 million doses will be purchased initially SAMAA | Health - Posted: Dec 31, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Health Posted: Dec 31, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
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Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that the cabinet committee has decided to buy the COVID-19 vaccine from Chinese company Sinopharm. Initially, 1.2 million doses will be purchased from Sinopharm, the federal science minister said on Twitter.
The vaccine will be given free of charge to frontline workers in the first quarter of 2021. He added that the private sector could also import vaccines that had been approved for use across the world.