Islamabad: Federal Planning Minister Asad Umar has said the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Pakistan will be used to inoculate Hajj pilgrims, people with work visas and students studying abroad only.
There are sufficient doses of the vaccine available for them, said the Minister at the inauguration of a vaccination centre at a shopping mall in Islamabad on Thursday.
With the number of vaccination centres across the country increasing, the burden on hospital admissions has been decreasing, he added.
There are 1,700 adult vaccination centres in the country.Many countries are not letting in people who received the Chinese vaccines.
More than 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in the country last Friday.They were provided to Pakistan free of cost through COVAX, the WHO vaccine-sharing alliance.
Umar thanked “the business leadership” for their willingness to participate in the vaccination drive to help the government accelerate the vaccination campaign and open up the economy.
Curtailing businesses helped decrease the spread of the virus, he said.
