Health
Pakistan receives over 700,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China
Karachi: Pakistan has received over 700,000 doses of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine from China.
According to details, a flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying a consignment of 792,000 doses of Chinese vaccine arrived in Islamabad from China.
The vaccines have been purchased by Pakistan from the Chinese firm.
Two more consignments of 1,208,000 vaccine doses will arrive from China in next 36 hours.
It is pertinent to mention here that China has so far gifted 1.72 million doses of vaccine to Pakistan. Besides Sinopharm, Pakistan is administering Moderna, Pfizer, Sinovac and Cansino vaccines to people as well.
Pakistan has reported a share surge in Covid-19 deaths as threat of delta variant looms large in Pakistan.
According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 4,720 cases of coronavirus were reported while 95 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 23,797.
The total number of confirmed cases reached to 1,063,125.
As many as 959,491 patients have recovered from the disease with 118 critical cases.