Age limit for Covid jabs cut to 15 years
DRIVE TO ADMINISTER PFIZER VACCINES FOR YOUNGER GROUPS SET TO BEGIN TOMORROW
The Pakistan government has decided to administer Covid-19 jabs to citizens aged 15-18 years from September 13. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) announced yesterday that they would be administered Pfizer jabs free of cost.
In a statement, the NCOC said mobile vaccination teams will go to schools and colleges to vaccinate students.
NCOC said students will have to carry their birth certificates for the jabs. NCOC added that Pfizer vaccine has been made available at all the vaccination centres.
Positivity rate drops
Meanwhile, the Covid-19 positivity ratio has declined significantly in the country for the first time during the fourth wave of coronavirus.
According to the NCOC, 63,181 tests were conducted for Covid-19 during the past 24 hours showing the positivity rate at 5.5 per cent.
Last time on July 23, the country’s positivity had declined to 4.89 per cent.
Pakistan’s death toll stood at 26,662 after 82 persons died in the past 24 hours while there are 91,717 active cases in the country, NCOC statistics revealed.
Pakistan’s tally of cases yesterday after 3,480 new cases surged past 1.2 million while after 3,121 recoveries in last one
day, the country’s total recoveries were 1.082 million.
Breather for cricket team
Meanwhile, Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has exempted the New Zealand cricket team from rapid antigen
testing upon their arrival at the Islamabad International Airport yesterday. The waiver, however, is subject to other relevant SOP rules, such as thermal scanning upon arrival, according to CAA.
The exemption was given in the light of request from Pakistan
Cricket Board (PCB), as the cricket board was doing the PCR testing of the team at the Serena hotel on their arrival.
Pakistan Cricket Board is hosting the New Zealand National Cricket team in Islamabad and Lahore for 3 ODIs and five T20 matches respectively.