A special consignment of 1.55 million Sinovac anti-Covid vaccine doses arrived at the Islamabad airport through a special PIA flight on Sunday, announced the Nationwide Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
The consignment is part of the emergency orders the federal government had placed to overcome a countrywide shortage of jabs.
“China as a time tested friend of Pakistan has taken special measures to make sure uninterrupted supply of vaccines to Pakistan,” the NCOC statement read.
The principal body governing the policies and implementation of the national Covid-19 efforts in the country further added that another consignment of two to three million doses of the Chinese vaccine will be reaching Pakistan in the next week followed by continued supply.