Pakistan to Purchase 1.2 Million Sinopharm Vaccines for Frontline Workers
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Science and Technology minister says private sector will be permitted to import any other internationally approved vaccine
Pakistan on Thursday announced that a cabinet committee had authorized the procurement of over one million coronavirus vaccines to cover frontline healthcare workers, with a senior minister saying the government hopes to deploy it within the first quarter of 2021.
“The Cabinet Committee has decided to initially purchase 1.2 million doses of the vaccine from the Chinese company Sinopharm, which will be provided free of cost to frontline workers in the first quarter of 2021,” Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Twitter. “If the private sector wants to import any other internationally-approved vaccine, it can do so,” he added.
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Islamabad : The government has decided to pre-book COVID-19 vaccine from a Chinese state owned company, Sinopharm, based on data submitted and timely availability. The decision is contingent upon.
Pakistan to procure 1.1 million COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese company Sinopharm
The Ministry of National Health Services said that the decision to procure the vaccine was made in the meeting of a special cabinet committee on Wednesday.
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A health care worker takes a nasal swab sample from a woman at a COVID-19 testing facility at a hospital in Karachi. (Photo| AP) By PTI
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to pre-book 1.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm, the health ministry said here on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus cases reached 479,715 after 2,475 new infections were detected in the country.
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