KARACHI: Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that Sindh will launch the COVID-19 vaccination drive from Monday.
While addressing a press conference at the Sindh Assembly, the provincial information minister said that Sindh will get 82,000 vaccine doses from the 500,000 doses received by the federal government from China.
He said that frontline healthcare workers will be vaccinated in the first phase in Sindh, adding that The Sindh health department had allocated Rs1.5 billion for the COVID-19 vaccine.
“In the first phase of the vaccination drive, front line healthcare workers will be inoculated, ” he said.
Nasir Shah said that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has also written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding the procurement of the vaccine.
