Pakistan to receive 13 million Pfizer doses: Dr Faisal Sultan

Pic21-011 KARACHI: Jun21-A woman receives a dose of the Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine at a vaccination camp in Provincial Capital. ONLINE PHOTO by Sabir Mazhar

Islamabad (HRNW) More doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are expected to reach Pakistan by the end of July.

The country will receive 13 million vaccine doses, confirmed Dr Faisal Sultan, the special assistant to the prime minister on health, on Tuesday.

The vaccine was previously reserved for those with low immunity and travellers.

According, to a source, the first consignment will arrive in July. The second batch of the Pfizer vaccine will reach the country by the end of this year.

Dr Sultan said the government had signed an agreement with vaccine-makers Biotech and Pfizer.

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