Pakistan to purchase 1.2m Covid-19 vaccine doses from Sinopharm
Reuters | Islamabad
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Pakistan will purchase 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China’s Sinopharm, a minister said on Thursday.
“The Cabinet Committee has decided to initially purchase 1.2 million doses of the vaccine from the Chinese company Sinopharm, which will be provided free of cost to frontline workers in the first quarter of 2021,” Pakistani Minister for Science and Technology said on Twitter.
The announcement comes after China approved a Covid-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on Thursday, it's first approved shot for general public use.
The approval, announced by China’s National Medical Products Administration, comes after the UAE this month became the first country to roll out the vaccine to the public.
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