Islamabad
In a major development, the government has decided to purchase coronavirus vaccine from brotherly country China. It was decided during a meeting of the special committee on procurement of COVDI-19 vaccine chaired by the Federal Minister for Planning and National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) chief Asad Umar in Islamabad today.
The meeting has decided to buy the coronavirus vaccine from Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. Taking to the social networking website, Twitter, Asad Umar announced that the cabinet had given nod to procurement of more than one million coronavirus doses which will cover all frontline health workers.
“Target is to deploy these vaccines within 1st quarter of 2021,” he addedFederal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Minister of Industries and ProductionHammad Azhar, Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr. Faisal Sultan and others were present in the meeting.—INP
