Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday said Pakistan had reached the milestone of administrating 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses.
“The last crore (10 million) took only 9 working days to administer,” the minister added in a tweet. “Let’s vaccinate and make Pakistan safe from this disease.”
On August 3, it was reported that Pakistan reached a milestone of vaccinating one million people in a single day against the coronavirus.
“Happy to report that the target we had set for one million vaccinations in a day was crossed,” said the planning minister who also heads the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
Umar added that Islamabad had become the first city of the country where half of the population had received the Covid jab.
POLITICIANS SUPER SPREADER: Meanwhile, Asad lashed out at the political leadership of the country over the worsening COVID-19 situation after the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announced a public meeting in Karachi later this month.
PDM president Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman had announced a public meeting on August 29.
Expressing his dismay over the decision, the minister said sadly the worst violations of COVID-19 SOPs in the last one year have come from the politicians.
Asad lamented the high positivity ratio in Azad Jammu and Kashmir after the elections.
He said he had recommended that AJK elections be postponed for a couple of months and a special vaccination campaign run before the elections. “It was not agreed,” he added.
“Since the elections, the positivity rate in AJK is running between 25 percent and 30 percent. Elections have acted as a super spreader event.”
