ISLAMABAD – At least 1.3 million doses of China’s Siopharm vaccine willreach Pakistan today, local media reported.
Reports quoting sources in the Ministry of Health said that 2 million moredoses each of Sinovac and Sinopharm will arrive in the South Asian countryon Monday and Tuesday.
Last month, a special flight of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)PK-6852 airlifted two million doses of Sinovac vaccine from the BeijingCapital International Airport.
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Pakistan’s nerve center on the novel disease had earlier revised theguidelines for two-dose Chinese vaccines, increasing the gap between thedoses to six weeks. The double dose SinoVac and Sinopharm vaccines wereinitially administered with a four-week gap which has now been increased tosix weeks.
