Pakistan: NOC only hands over 1000 Pfizer vaccine to Balochistan government
Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Centre has handed over only 1,000 doses of Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine to the Balochistan government at a time when the nation is fighting to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
The vaccine doses will be administered to people having extremely weak immunity, reports Dawn News.
Balochistan Secretary of Primary and Secondary Health Care Aziz Ahmad Jamali confirmed to Dawn News that the provincial government had received 1000 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the NCOC.
“The Pfizer vaccine would be administered to patients of cancer, dialysis, kidney transplant, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and chronic hepatitis,” Jamali said.
Pakistan has witnessed several waves of the pandemic so far.
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