Nation crosses 100m Covid vaccine mark

OVER 38M FULLY VACCINATED WITH POSITIVITY RATE PEGGED AT 1.40%

The country yesterday crossed a significant milestone of administering 100 million doses of vaccine in its continued fight against Covid-19.

The National Command & Operation Centre (NCOC), the nerve centre monitoring efforts to defeat the pandemic shared on its official portal that 38.213 million people have been fully vaccinated, while 100,016587 have been administered at least one dose of vaccine.

‘We have achieved the landmark of 100 million doses of vaccine. Well done Pakistan,” the NCOC tweet said.

Federal minister for planning, development and special initiative Asad Umar, who is also chief of the NCOC, in a tweet welcomed the achievement and said that 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine were administered to 68 million people.

Recovery rate improves

The NCOC data shows 15 persons lost their lives, while 552 new cases of Covid-19 were reported during past 24 hours.

The positivity rate nationally thus remained 1.40 per cent.

On the contrary, the recovery rate shows a major boost (95.9 per cent) and according to the NCOC, 842 persons recovered in the last 24 hours. The gap between the total number of infections (1.26 million) and total number of recoveries (1.21 million) is narrowing with each passing day, the data shows.

Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi district administration has decided to bar unvaccinated people from entering offices and using transport.

Citizens have been asked to get their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine as early as possible or risk being disallowed from entering government offices and using public transport.