KP health dept struggling to increase Covid vaccination rate - Pakistan
A health worker receives a dose of Sinopharm's coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination centre in Peshawar. — Reuters/File PESHAWAR: The health department is struggling to increase coronavirus vaccination rate and ensure the enforcement of smart lockdowns in the province amid the growing detection of Delta, Alpha and Beta strains of the virus, insist officials. The officials told Dawn that the health department had sent samples of 50 Covid-19 confirmed cases to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, for gene sequencing and 16 of them were found to be Delta variant and five Alpha one. Th...