Pakistan Vaccination
Pakistan: Punjab may miss vaccination target due to 'dead slow' process
Islamabad: Pakistan's Punjab region might miss the deadline of vaccinating all 67 million ‘eligible’ people by the end of December due to 'dead slow' vaccination process, media reports said.
According to reports, the government is vaccinating 51,667 people daily on average against the adult population of 0.42 million.
The provincial government had initiated the vaccination process in the first week of March to achieve the target by the end of 2021.
However, till June 1, the government has vaccinated only 4.2m people out of 67m total target population in Punjab, which constitutes 6.3pc only, showing desperately low coverage to fight the pandemic, reports Dawn News.
The vaccination coverage is not up to the mark in Lahore and some other major pandemic districts of the province. The data shows that the target adults to be vaccinated in Lahore were 6.7m but the government could vaccinate 12.3pc of them till June 1. More than 87pc are yet to be vaccinated, reports the newspaper.
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