Pakistan to receive Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine by early February: Dr Faisal
500,000 people to benefit from 1st batch of COVID-19 vaccines: SAPM Dr Faisal
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Health r Faisal Sultan has said that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines, from Chinese vaccine manufacturing company Sinopharm, will arrive in Pakistan by the first week of February.
"First installment of 1.1 million doses for about 500,000 people will be received from Sinopharm”, he said.
The SAPM had earlier said that Pakistan was negotiating with China and Russia, among others, to procure the vaccines, and that frontline workers and senior citizens would be the first to receive them.
Nausheen Hamid, the parliamentary secretary at the Health Ministry, said in December last year that Pakistan plans to launch its vaccination drive in the second quarter of 2021.
