Vaccine loading process underway at Beijing airport: Asad Umar
Vaccine loading process underway at Beijing airport: Asad Umar
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar has said that loading process of coronavirus vaccine is underway in the Pakistan Air Force plane at Beijing airport.
Minister for planning Asad Umar in his tweet said that in the next few hours, the plane will leave for Pakistan with the vaccine.
He further said that in the next few days God willing the vaccination process will start in Pakistan.
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) January 31, 2021
Earlier a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) plane departed for China today (Sunday) to bring the first batch of Covid-19 vaccine comprising five hundred thousand doses.
On the other hand, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) deliberated over the strategy to administer the coronavirus vaccine across the country. The meeting was told that a proper storage center has been built in Islamabad for the doses.
The vaccine will be shifted to all provinces by air from the federal capital and all preparations have been finalized in this regard. A special vaccination center has been constituted at the NCOC under which all provincial and district bodies will function.
