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Islamabad, March 7
Pakistan will start COVID-19 vaccination drive for those aged 60 and above from March 10, the government announced on Sunday amid surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Minister for Planning Asad Umar said that the oldest citizen would be the first to be inoculated.
“The vaccination of people 60 years and older will be starting from Wednesday the 10th of March. Vaccinations will be done in reverse order by age. Which means the oldest person who has registered will be vaccinated first,” he said, adding that more details will be issued on Monday.
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan on March 4 approved the use of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm for people over 60 years of age, reversing an earlier decision not to use it for this age group.
Vaccine rollout
February 14, 2021
Pakistan has moved a few steps closer to dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic that it seemed had been almost forgotten. The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan on Friday approved the Convidecia vaccine manufactured by CanSinoBio in China. This is a positive step as the vaccine underwent trials at five centres in Pakistan and as per universal protocol should be more easily available to people in the country, as doses are handed out. In addition, it is a vaccine which requires only one shot as compared to two which are the standard requirement for most of the other vaccines in the market so far. In Pakistan, these include China’s Sinopharm vaccine, the Sputnik-5 vaccine developed by Russia, the AstraZeneca vaccine from Oxford University and a Swedish firm. And now the latest vaccine from China. It is far from certain yet how many vaccines Pakistan will be able to put together to vaccinate its enormous population. But even more significant than th