Coronavirus: Pakistan’s efforts to procure vaccine will cover just 20pc population Dawn 11/01/2021 Mansoor Malik
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s federal government seems least bothered about the protection of its 220 million population as it has made arrangements to procure just 1.1 million coronavirus vaccine doses from a Chinese company and that too for frontline workers and vulnerable population.
Each human being will be requiring two doses to acquire immunity against coronavirus for a period yet unknown to the world. People wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus make their way through a street in Karachi on December 10, 2020 as coronavirus cases continue to rise in Pakistan. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
کورونا ویکسین کی فراہمی: حکومتی کوششیں صرف 20 فیصد آبادی کا احاطہ کریں گی - Pakistan
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ملک میں 5 روزہ انسداد پولیو مہم کا آج سے آغاز - Pakistan
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Islamabad: Pakistan’s number of COVID-19 infections surged to 502,416 on Sunday as 2,899 confirmed cases were reported during the last 24 hours.
With 46 deaths in the same period, the country’s overall death toll caused by COVID-19 stands at 10,644.
The number of recovered cases has also jumped to 456,969 1,524 recovered in the last twenty-four hours.
According to the National Health Ministry’s portal, the country’s fatality rate hovers over 2.1 per cent while the recovery rate is 91per cent. The number of active cases in the country has also slightly gone up from 33,474 to 34,808 in one day, reports the health ministry’s website.