Pakistan’s first-ever COVID vaccine to be launched today

Pakistan has successfully formulated it’s first-ever COVID-19 vaccine with the help of China's CanSino Biologics Inc. The vaccine has been finalised and approved for use after a series of careful quality control checks.

“Concentrate and technical assistance to manufacture PakVac vaccine was provided by China,” said sources.

Ass per sources, Ministry of Health will launch coronavirus vaccine PakVac for people above 18 years of age.

Reportedly, the Ministry of Health initially ordered the Health Department to prepare three million doses of PakVac.

However, one lakh and twenty thousand doses of vaccine have been manufactured so far.

The manufacturing, packing and concentrate for PakVac vaccine have been monitored at the National Institutes of Health.

Earlier in May, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr Faisal Sultan took to Twitter and announced while saying: "Congratulations to the NIH Pak team and its leadership for successful fill/finish (from concentrate) of the Cansino vaccine with the help of Cansino Bio Inc. China. The product has passed rigorous internal QA testing. An imp step to help in our vaccine supply line," wrote Dr Sultan.

Congratulations to the NIH Pak team and its leadership for successful fill/finish (from concentrate) of the Cansino vaccine with the help of Cansino Bio Inc. China. The product has passed the rigorous internal QA testing. An imp step to help in our vaccine supply line pic.twitter.com/hrkySTJxPX

— Faisal Sultan (@fslsltn) May 24, 2021