$1.1b Covid response plan With the $200 million worth of new loan, the country will be able to cover another 13.5 million A man wearing a protective mask walks through a crowd of people along a makeshift market as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan January 17, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS/File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday approved $200 million loan as part of its overall plan to immunise nearly 70 million people against the deadly Covid-19 contagion during current year. The government has planned to procure 146.2 million doses to provide shots to 69.6 million “eligible people” or 70 per cent of the population that can be vaccinated, according to the Ministry of National Health Services.