More than seven million people across Pakistan have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, according to National Command and Operation Centre head Asad Umar. On Saturday, the country set a new record of administering over 383,000 vaccines in a day, he tweeted on Sunday.
May 29, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) head and Minister for Planning Asad Umar said that the Pakistani nation has received global praise for how it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, ARY News reported on Saturday.
Asad Umar said in a series of Twitter messages that the Pakistani national has received global praise for how it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest challenge the world has faced in the last 100 years.
He said that some personalities are national heroes for the work they did to save lives and livelihoods. He continued that Lt Gen Humooduz Zaman, Maj Gen Asif Goraya and their dedicated team at the NCOC are the central pivots of the national effort and it is his honour and privilege to have chaired the centre.