ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday said that Pakistan has achieved the target of administering Covid-19 vaccine to 70 million people of the country by the end of 2021.
Sharing the details from his Twitter handle, Asad, who is also the head of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), said that the target of fully vaccinating 70 million people by the end of 2021 has been achieved owing to efforts of the NCOC team and the federal and provincial administrations.
“I am grateful for the tireless work of the NCOC team, the federal and provincial administrations and the health teams. The hard word of all these people achieved the target that was considered unachievable,” he said.
He added that to make the massive vaccination drive possible, the federal government had procured vaccines worth approximately Rs250 billion.
“100 percent procurement of vaccine was done by the federal government, which has provided free vaccines to all citizens regardless of which province they live in,” he said.
Further sharing the statistics of Covid vaccination in the federating units, the NCOC head said that Islamabad leads with a 77 percent fully vaccinated population. “Punjab is at 51 percent, Gilgit-Baltistan 46 percent, AJK 45 percent, Balochistan 42 percent, KP 41 percent, and Sindh at 37 percent,” he said, adding that of the total eligible population of the country, 46 percent is fully vaccinated and 63 percent has received at least one dose.
Covid-19 kills 6, infects 515 in a day:
Pakistan reported six deaths by novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours as the nationwide tally of fatalities jumped to 28,927 on Friday.
According to the latest figures issued by the NCOC, 515 persons were tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
Punjab remained the worst-hit province in terms of deaths followed by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The number of confirmed positive cases surged to 1,295,376.
481,689 coronavirus cases have been confirmed so far in Sindh, 444,977 in Punjab, 181,370 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 108,618 in Islamabad, 34,660 in Azad Kashmir, 33,633 in Balochistan and 10,429 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pakistan has conducted 23,372,405 coronavirus tests so far and 47,856 in the last 24 hours. 1,256,337 patients have recovered in the country, whereas 633 patients are in critical condition.
The Covid-19 positivity ratio was recorded at 1.07 percent.
