First consignment of AstraZeneca arriving on 8th Top Story May 6, 2021 KARACHI: The first consignment of around 1.238 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, codenamed AZD1222 through COVAX facility would be landing at the Islamabad International Airport on Saturday, May 08, 2021, federal government officials told The News. He said Pakistan is receiving the European vaccine from a non-Indian source. “Around 12,38,000 (12 lac and thirty eight thousand) doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s AZD1222 COVID-19 vaccine (Covishield) are arriving on May 8 at the Islamabad Airport. It is the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccine being supplied through COVAX to Pakistan from a non-Indian source,” an official of the National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHS,R&C) told The News on Wednesday.