A plane of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has departed for ChinalinkonSunday (today) to bring the first batch of Coronavirus Vaccine comprising500,000 doses. The plane will land back in Pakistan on Monday.

According to the details, IL-78 of PAF left for Beijing from Noor KhanBase. In the first phase, China will provide Pakistan with 500,000 doses ofthe Sinopharm vaccine. The authorities have confirmed that China hasdonated a total of 1.1 million vaccine doses to Pakistan.

The vaccine would be preserved in the Expanded Program on Immunization(EPI) and National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA) cold storage fromwhere it will be transported to the provinces.

The first batch of vaccines will be provided by the Chinese government asan aid, the foreign office spokesperson said and added that the Chinesegovernment will “actively coordinate with the relevant Chinese enterpriseto speed up the export of vaccines to Pakistan”.

Coronavirus Situation in Pakistan

On the other hand, the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC)reported that the novel coronavirus claimed 34 more lives in the country inthe past 24 hours taking the national death tally to 11,657.

Moreover, 1,599 more people got infected with the dread virus in a singleday taking the national tally to 544,813. As many as 42,455 samples weretested during this period. The positivity ratio of Covid-19 cases wasrecorded at 3.76 per cent.

Moreover there are a total of 33,182 active cases as 499,974 people haverecuperated.

Since the first Covid-19 case was detected in the country almost a yearback, Sindh has reported a total of 246,437 infections, Punjab 157,353,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 66,953, Balochistan 18,815, Islamabad 41,359, Azad Jammuand Kashmir 8,988, and Gilgit Baltistan 4,908.