BEIJING, June 20 (APP): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s flight PK-6852 transported 1.55million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine from the Beijing Capital International Airport to Islamabad on Sunday.
The national flag carrier through its special flights has already airlifted one million Covid-19 vaccine procured from China to Pakistan this month, Qadir Bux Sangi, PIA Country Manager for China told APP.
The government has run a massive vaccination drive across the country to achieve the target of providing 70 million doses of vaccines aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. So far, over 10 million people have been vaccinated.
It may be mentioned that Pakistani health authorities had launched a nationwide vaccination drive with around a million doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China, starting with older people and frontline healthcare workers, in March. The drive began with a focus on the oldest people in the community, generally over the age of 80, and worked its way down.
Initially, the government had to deal with vaccination hesitancy and a shortage of vaccine supplies and had limited shots for people aged 30 or over.
Islamabad received the first COVID-19 vaccine consignment after a military aircraft transported it from Beijing on February 01, this year.
