Three aircrafts of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) transport a package of one million COVID-19 vaccine dosages reached in Islamabad on Sunday as the country sees a high-pitched surge in new coronavirus cases.

 

Rendering to a National Health Ministry official, Three PIA Boeing 777 planes have transported one million (Sinopharm Covid-19) vaccines from China.

The aircrafts had gone for China on Saturday. Two distinct planes and a PIA ordered flight were used to transport operation for the corona vaccine doses from Beijing.


Furthermore, Pakistan has also bought extra 30 million doses of COVID vaccine from China that will soon reach in the country to help in a initiative to vaccinate its over 220 million population.

As per to the sources, being aware of to the development, the country has acquired 30.5 million COVID vaccine dosages from three Chinese companies.

Pakistan will be buying 20 million injections of single-dose COVID vaccine from CanSino moreover also purchasing 5.5 million dosages from Sinopharm and 5 million from Sinovac. As China before gifted 1.5 million vaccine dosages to Islamabad.

It is appropriate to remarkable thing here that Pakistan has already instigated vaccinating for the elderly people aged above 60-year-old and health specialists. The vaccination of people in the age group 50-59 has also been underway from April 21.

Pakistan initiated a vaccination initiative last month with over a million doses of Sinopharm vaccines contributed by China. Islamabad received the first COVID-19 vaccine shipment after a fighting aircraft flied it from Beijing in February 1, this year.




 The disease has sued 118 new lives in the country during the last 24 hours.

Rendering to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) data, 118 people expired of Covid-19 in a single day, assertive the national tally to 17,117.

As of for now, many as 5,611 new infections appeared in people when 55,611 diseased people were tested. The country’s overall positivity ratio of new cases shot high to 10.17%, according to the NCOC which is still can't be negotiable.

According to a high-ranking Chinese authorised, the vaccine assistance among Pakistan and China replicates the honest common support between the two as all-weather deliberate cooperative partners.