{"id":3254,"date":"2021-01-30T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2021-01-30T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:22:40","slug":"good-news-pakistan-secures-17m-doses-of-astrazeneca-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/30\/good-news-pakistan-secures-17m-doses-of-astrazeneca-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Good news&#8217;: Pakistan secures 17m doses of AstraZeneca vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the 500,000 doses of Sinopharm from China,\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0on Saturday secured 17 million indicative doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, out of which 35-40 per cent or 6 to 6.8 million doses will be available within the first quarter of the current year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3257\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Britain-first-to-approve-AstraZeneca-Oxford-COVID-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"Britain-first-to-approve-AstraZeneca-Oxford-COVID-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-pakistan\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Britain-first-to-approve-AstraZeneca-Oxford-COVID-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-pakistan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Britain-first-to-approve-AstraZeneca-Oxford-COVID-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-pakistan-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy to share that in addition to the 500,000 doses of Sinopharm, almost 7 million does [doses] of AstraZeneca to be made available in Q1 and given to the public free of cost,&#8221; Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan wrote on his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the country&#8217;s vaccination drive will start from next week, beginning with frontline healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good news on covid vaccine front. Recieved letter from Covax of indicative supply of up to 17 million doses of AstraZeneca in 1st half 2021. About 6 million will be recieved by March with delivery starting in Feb. We signed with Covax nearly 8 months back to ensure availability<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Asad_Umar\/status\/1355531498871549958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nMinister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar, who heads the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) to fight coronavirus pandemic, also shared the \u2018good news\u2019, saying that the government had signed with Covax nearly eight months back to ensure its availability.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy to share that in addition to the 500,000 doses of Sinopharm, almost 7 million does of AstraZeneca to be made available in Q1 and given to the public free of cost! Pakistan\u2019s vaccine drive starts next week, beginning with frontline healthcare workers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6nJACx9aL7\">pic.twitter.com\/6nJACx9aL7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Faisal Sultan (@fslsltn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fslsltn\/status\/1355532642578550785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;Good news on covid vaccine front. Recieved [received] letter from Covax of indicative supply of up to 17 million doses of AstraZeneca in 1st half 2021. About 6 million will be recieved [received] by March with delivery starting in Feb. We signed with Covax nearly 8 months back to ensure availability,&#8221; Asad tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>A press release, shared by Dr Faisal Sultan, said that AstraZeneca vaccine has already been\u00a0approved\u00a0for use in Pakistan by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COVAX&#8217;s timely support and delivery of the vaccine is a testament of the global stakeholders&#8217; trust in Pakistan&#8217;s preparedness for vaccine roll-out,&#8221; it added,<\/p>\n<p>Dr Faisal Sultan expressed confidence that the government will meet the plane of large scale immunisation over the coming months this year.<\/p>\n<p>On January 28, the federal government gave the green light for three\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0vaccines including Russia\u2019s Sputnik-V, China\u2019s Sinopharm and UK\u2019s Oxford-AstraZeneca for emergency use in the country for which a step-by-step guide was also issued.<\/p>\n<p>Asad Umar had said that the frontline health workers would be among the first recipients of the vaccine. \u201cGod willing, the vaccination of frontline health workers will start next week,\u201d the minister tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The minister confirmed that the plan for vaccination had been finalised. \u201cThe system for vaccination is in place. Hundreds of vaccination centres in the country will be administering covid vaccine,\u201d he added in his tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the 500,000 doses of Sinopharm from China,\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0on Saturday secured 17 million indicative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan Finally Secures 17m Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In addition to the 500,000 doses of Sinopharm from China,\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0on Saturday secured 17 million indicative 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