ISLAMABAD – Another flight of Pakistan’s national flag carrier, carrying one million doses of Sinovac vaccine from the Beijing, arrived in Islamabad on Sunday.
More flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) are expected to airlift more consignments of Covid-19 vaccines procured from China by the end of this month.
The South Asian country has so far received over 11 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines comprising of Sinopharm, Sinovac and CanSino procured from China including others through COVAX programme.
Meanwhile, Pakistan reported at least 76 new deaths and 2,379 fresh cases due to the third wave of the novel coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours.
According to the latest figures from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the death toll has surged to 19,543 while the number of confirmed cases stands at 877,130.
