Over 1.3 million people vaccinated against COVID-19 across country: Asad Umar
Islamabad: Federal Minister of Planning and Development Asad Umar on Tuesday revealed that over 1.3 million people have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19 across the country.

While addressing a news conference in Federal capital, he said sixty to seventy thousand vaccines are currently being administered on daily basis and it is our effort to enhance it to one hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred thousand after Eid-ul-Fitr.
“The UK coronavirus variant is behind recent surge in coronavirus cases in the entire region,” he stressed adding that “strict implementation of SOPs can curb the spread of the virus”.
The Minister said that nine hundred thousand vaccines were available in the country last night.
Asad Umar said if the country received vaccines as per the commitments, the vaccination will be opened for all the Pakistanis after Eid-ul-Fitr.
The Minister urged the people to fully comply with the health guidelines to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Pakistan has reported 4,318 Covid-19 cases and 118 deaths in one day as the third wave of the pandemic continued to rage across the country, taking the total death toll to 15,619.
The total number of confirmed cases reached to 729,920.
As many as 6, 38,267 patients have recovered from the disease with 4,198 critical cases.

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