The Federal Ministry of National Health Services has announced thatCoronavirus Vaccine will be available in March 2021 in Pakistan.

In this regard, Special Assistant for Health Dr. Faisal Sultan whiletalking to ‘Dunya News’ said that the government has finalized theprocedure to prevent coronavirus and to buy vaccine.

Dr. Faisal Sultan said that under the vaccination plan, vaccine will beavailable in Pakistan in March 2021. He said we are in touch not just oneor two countries but with different countries.

He said that government is in touch with all the major vaccine makers. Itwas very important to allocate money to buy vaccines.

SAPM said that in order to buy vaccine, we will see which the mostbeneficial vaccine is. Some aspects of vaccine procurement are a bitdifficult to decide. The committee will make a final decision on thepurchase of the vaccine after considering the views of experts.

The Special Assistant for Health said that the vaccination campaign wouldbe carried out in three phases. The vaccine will be provided on an EPIprogram basis.