Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus cases crossed the grim milestone of 700,000 on Wednesday with 4,004 cases reported during the last 24 hours.
The country’s death toll also surged to 15,026 as 102 people lost their lives to the virus during the past day.
The total number of cases in the country stood at 700,188 on Wednesday.
According to the National Health Services, 41,699 tests were conducted for COVID-19 during the last 24 hours that showed the virus positivity rate was 9.6 per cent in the country with active cases jumping to 64,373.
Pakistan’s number of cases has declined slightly in the past two days. On Tuesday the country reported less than 4,000 cases.
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Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus vaccination drive achieved a small milestone on Tuesday as 1 million citizens have been vaccinated.
More than 76,000 people were administered the vaccine on April 5, taking the total number of vaccination to 1 million, said Minister Asad Umar who is spearheading the national fight against the pandemic.
At least 600,000 healthcare workers and 1.4 million citizens above the age of 50 have been administered the vaccines at government health facilities. Most of the people have currently only received the first dose of vaccine.
Free vaccines by government
Pakistan government is currently administering the 2.5 million doses of Sinopharm and single-shot CanSino doses received from China. Another 4 million COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be delivered by the end of April. Pakistan aims to vaccinate around 70 million of its total 220 million population to reach community immunity.
Islamabad: Pakistan said on Thursday that it would allow COVID-19 vaccine doses to be sold commercially to patients, starting with the vaccine developed in China by CanSino Biologics. The Russian Sputnik V vaccine will also be sold, officials said.
The policy will allow affluent Pakistanis to pay to get the shots at large private hospitals whenever they want, while most people wait their turn for a state-supplied vaccination.
“The government will provide free vaccine to 98 per cent of the people,” Fawad Chaudhry, federal minister for science and technology, said Thursday after a meeting of the federal Cabinet in Islamabad. “But 2 per cent of the people who don’t want to wait in a line, we have decided to allow the sale of private vaccine.”
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