Yasmin Rashid says no shortage of Covid-19 vaccine in Punjab

Post chairing a meeting at Department of Secondary and Primary Healthcare, the provincial health minister said that there are sufficient doses of vaccines available in all districts.

 “The number of people getting vaccination has sky rocketed but there are still over 25,000 doses available. Around 11,000 people are being administered Covid-19 vaccination in a day at Expo Center. Only recently we distribute 1.6 million doses to different districts,” she said adding that Punjab has sufficient stock for next three days.

Yasmin Rashid announced government will start giving AstraZeneca jabs to people travelling abroad.

“We have instructed all Deputy Commissioners to start administering AstraZeneca to people who are below 40 and travelling abroad,” she said.

Referring to Pfizer vaccine, she said that Punjab has 13 thousand doses of Pfizer and it will be administered to people suffering from various diseases.

Earlier it was reported that major vaccination centers in Karachi and Lahore were witnessing shortage of Covid-19 vaccines.

The authorities at Karachi and Lahore’s Expo Center told that they are facing the shortage of coronavirus vaccines including Sinopharm, Sinovac and AstraZeneca.