Pakistan gets another 2m doses of COVID vaccine from China

According to details, the NCOC said in a tweet that 2 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac have reached Pakistan.

As per NCOC's tweet, Pakistan has purchased this consignment of the Sinovac vaccine from the friend country. 

PIA plane carrying 2 Million doses of Sinovac vaccine has reached Pakistan today. This consignment is purchased by Pakistan from China. With the arrival of this consignment, total 11 million vaccines have been received by Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/wNzPnZ4vsb

— NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) May 23, 2021

However, Pakistan has received a total of 11 million doses of the vaccine.

Last week, two consignments of the COVID vaccine arrived in Pakistan from China.

Earlier, Pakistan on Sunday, May 16 received another batch of 1 million doses of the Chinese Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, bringing the total number of doses procured to more than 11 million doses.

According to details, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight 6852 reached another one million doses of the Chinese jabs China on Sunday.

“More flights of the national carrier are expected to airlift more consignments of COVID-19 vaccines procured from China by the end of May 2021, Qadir Bux Sangi, PIA country manager for China told the press.

According to official sources, Pakistan has so far received over 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines comprising of Sinopharm, Sinovac and CanSino procured from China including others through the COVAX programme.

Around 1.23 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine were also received in the federal capital last night.

However, this vaccine was procured through the COVAX programme.

Earlier, a top health official claimed that Pakistan is set to receive 30 million doses from different countries for which the orders have already been placed. 

The government of Pakistan has recently started vaccinating people above 30 years of age while the vaccination of people above 40 has already been in the process.

Pakistan is presently experiencing the third wave of coronavirus which is said to be deadlier and more contagious than the previous two waves.

According to National Command and Operations Center (NCOC), around 3,084 cases of coronavirus were reported while 74 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 20,251.

The total number of confirmed cases reached 900,552.

As many as 817,681 patients have recovered from the disease with 4,392 critical cases.