The Sindh’s health secretary volunteered to be administered a vaccine shot at a hospital conducting clinical trials of a candidate vaccine of coronavirus, it was learnt on Thursday. Provincial Secretary Health DrKazimHussainJatoi opted to participate in clinical trials at a charity hospital in Karachi. “I have presented myself for the vaccine trial as secretary health,” DrKazimJatoi later said. Scores of prominent public figures of Pakistan have volunteered to be vaccinated in clinical trials of a Chinese vaccine being conducted in the country. In November Punjab Governor ChaudhrySarwar and his wife were administered a vaccine shot during clinical trias at the University of Health Sciences (USH) in Lahore. All staff members of Punjab governor were also administered shots of the trial vaccine of coronavirus. Governor ChaudhrySarwar was the first prominent public figure in Pakistan who had received a shot of trial vaccine of the novel coronavirus. Afterwards federal minister Ijaz Shah also got a shot of the candidate COVID-19 from China at Lahore’s University of Health Sciences (UHS). His staff members were also administered the trial vaccine, the university’s vice chancellor Prof JavedAkram said. Clinical trials of the candidate covid vaccine being conducted at five health facilities across Pakistan.
