100m people now fully vaccinated: Minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Sunday said that in a major milestone, Pakistan has fully vaccinated 100 million of its population.
In a post on Twiter, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) head said that a major milestone has been reached in the national vaccination drive with 100 million Pakistanis are now fully vaccinated.
“More than 127 million have [received] at least one dose. We are very close to achieving vaccination of all eligible citizens,” Umar said.
Rapid vaccination in the country has led to a decline in the COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 claimed the lives of seven more people in Pakistan, pushing the death toll to 30,265 during the last 24 hours.
The data released by the National Command and Operation Centre showed Pakistan continued to report a downward trend in the new pandemic infections and logged 755 fresh cases of the pandemic during the past 24 hours. As many as 37,661 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours.
The positivity rate remained 2 per cent. The number of c ovid -19 patients in critical care at various hospitals across the country has dropped to 821.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Pakistan has conducted overall 26,646,219 tests to diagnose the coronavirus including 37,661 tests during the past 24 hours.
About 1,454,382 people have got their health back including 886 in a single day in Pakistan.
The country has inoculated total doses of 215,539,999 since the start of the vaccination process. As many as 99,292,129 people have received both doses of the vaccine, while 4,512,786 people have received booster shots.
More than 441.77 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally, and 6,358,655 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in December 2019.
Meanwhile, a study said that COVID-19 MRNA vaccines do not affect the ovarian response or pregnancy rates in ivf( in-vitro fer ti lisa ti on) treatment.
A team of researchers from the Tel Aviv University in Israel found that in patients undergoing IVF treatments, ovarian response and pregnancy rates were similar with those that were vaccinated with the MRNA COVID-19 vaccine prior to IVF treatment, as compared to unvaccinated women.