Chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) and Planning Minister Asad Umar on Friday announced that 46% of Pakistan’s eligible population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and 63% have received at least one jab.
The minister took to his official Twitter handle and stated that Islamabad led the federating units with 77% of its population being vaccinated.
The capital was followed by Punjab at 51%, Gilgit Baltistan at 46%, Azad Jammu and Kashmir at 45%, Balochistan at 42%, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at 41%, and Sindh at 37%.
“To make this massive vaccination drive possible, the Federal Government has procured vaccines worth nearly Rs250 billion,” he added.
He emphasised that “100% of [the] vaccine procurement” was done by the federal government, which has provided free anti-Covid jabs to citizens across Pakistan “regardless of which province they live in”.
The NCOC separately announced that Pakistan had achieved its target of 70 million fully vaccinated individuals.
