COVID19 vaccine is very effective: Faisal Sultan
Deaths from Covid-19 cross 18,000 mark in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health, Dr Faisal Sultan has said that the COVID-19 vaccine is very effective to protect citizens from medical complications of many virus variants.
In a statement, he said keeping in view the detection of new COVID-19 variants in Pakistan and raising questions on the effectiveness of vaccine process, the country men are advised to must go for vaccination against the virus to avoid facing more complications and hospitalization.
He made it clear that there are so many variants of COVID-19 in the world presently, and some virus variants have a tendency of having more chances of re-occurrence of infection.
Dr Faisal Sultan said regardless of which variants have been detected, the SOPs recommended globally continue to be our first line of defense against coronavirus.
On the other hand, deaths from Covid-19 have crossed 18,000 mark in Pakistan as the number of positive cases has surged to 829,933.
According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) 4,414 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
Punjab remains the worst-hit province in terms of deaths and cases followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Till now 8,550 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Punjab 4,658 in Sindh, 3,350 in KP, 691 in Islamabad, 477 in Azad Kashmir, 237 in Balochistan, and 107 in GB.
Furthermore 304,889 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Punjab, 284,738 in Sindh, 119,277 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 75,892 in Islamabad, 22,528 in Balochistan, 17,297 in Azad Kashmir and 5,312 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
