COVID-19: Pakistan achieves ‘major milestone’ by fully vaccinating 100 million citizens

A health worker inoculates a student with a dose of the Pfizer vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at his school in Karachi on January 24, 2022. (AFP)

• Planning minister Asad Umar says the country will soon vaccinate all its eligible population against the coronavirus disease
• At least 127 million Pakistanis have already received one dose of the vaccine

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has fully vaccinated over 100 million people against COVID-19, said the minister heading the country’s taskforce responsible to deal with the coronavirus threat on Sunday while calling it a “major milestone.”
Pakistan witnessed a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in January, as the omicron-driven fifth wave of the pandemic hit the country.
Since the last month, however, the number of new infections has significantly gone down.
“Major milestone reached in national vaccination drive,” the country’s planning minister Asad Umar said in a Twitter post. “100 million Pakistanis are now fully vaccinated.”
Umar, who also supervises the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), the main body responsible for tackling coronavirus infections in Pakistan, said the government would soon vaccinate all eligible citizens in the country.

Major milestone reached in national vaccination drive. 100 million Pakistani's are now fully vaccinated. More than 127 million have recieved atleast one dose. We are very close to achieving vaccination of all eligible citizens

— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) March 6, 2022

Pakistan reported two percent coronavirus positivity ratio on Sunday, the lowest since January 5 when the country reported an infection rate of 1.8 percent.
The South Asian country has 29,611 active coronavirus cases while it has reported 755 new ones in the last 24 hours.