Govt to inoculate 10,000 people/day in Islamabad

Following the inauguration ceremony, the Federal Minister along with Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Services Dr Faisal Sultan held a press talk and called on the masses to get vaccinated.

The minister further said that the newly opened vaccination centre in Islamabad will cater ten thousand vaccinations per day while decisions regarding marriage halls, educational institutions, and business centres will be issued on Tuesday.

“The process of vaccination is initiated in Islamabad to make the Federal Capital COVID free”, the NCOC head said.

“More than 4,600,000 people have been vaccinated so far in Pakistan, we want the circumstances in Pakistan to get back to normal”, the minister of planning added.

As per official data from the Ministry of Health, Pakistan has vaccinated 1,966,837 people partially, while 964,227 individuals are fully vaccinated and a total of 3,836,291 doses of coronavirus jabs has been administered.

The country carried out the record of 41,771 coronavirus tests in a single day.

According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 3,256 cases of coronavirus were reported while 104 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 19,856.

The total number of cases has reached 886,184.

As many as 795, 511 patients have recovered from the disease with 4,361 critical cases.

Several coronavirus vaccines have been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of the 189 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 66 are high-income nations, 100 are middle-income and 23 low-income.

Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable.

Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need, while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan, known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a vaccine.

With many countries now having started widespread vaccine rollouts, the number of daily cases is stable or falling in most regions.

However, Asia is the notable exception, mostly due to India's recent surge in cases.

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from China in early 2020, but the number of cases and deaths were initially lower than Europe and North America.