ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Omar onTuesday said that the campaign for vaccination against novel coronavirus isbeing launched today in the presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Taking it to Twitter, the NCOC chief said the National Corona VaccinationCampaign will formally be launched in all the provincial capitals tomorrow(Wednesday). He said frontline health workers will be administered thevaccine first.

He further added that the process of dispatching the vaccines to all theprovinces is underway with Punjab and Gilgit Baltistan having already beensent the vaccine by road.

The vaccine has been shifted from the EPI storage to Islamabad airport forits onward transportation to Sindh and Balochistan as well, the sourcessaid, hoping that both provinces will get the vaccine by this evening. Theysaid the vaccine has also been sent to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Jammuand Kashmir by road.