Pakistan achieves target of vaccinating 70m against Covid-19: PM

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the government has achieved its target of fully vaccinating 70 million people across the country.

"We have completed our target of fully vaccinating 7 crore of our people by end of 2021," the premier wrote on his official Twitter handle on Friday.

He said that the federal government alone procured vaccines worth almost Rs250 billion and provided free vaccines to citizens in all the provinces to achieve the target.

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"I want to thank the tireless & coordinated work done by the NCOC [National Command and Operation Centre], federal & provincial administrations & health teams to ensure success of our gov[ernmen]t's vaccination prog[ramme]."

Earlier today, NCOC Chairman Asad Umar had also announced the development on his Twitter handle.

He appreciated the NCOC team and the health teams from the central government and provinces for their hardworking efforts to achieve the tough goal.

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Umar said that the central government procured vaccines and provided them free of cost to all citizens, adding that 46 per cent of the country's total eligible population have been fully vaccinated.

In early February, Pakistan kicked off its nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign after receiving a batch of China-donated vaccines.

Pakistan's overall tally of the infected people reached 1,295,376 across the country on Thursday, including 1,256,337 recoveries and 28,927 deaths, according to the NCOC.