KARACHI: Over 7,349 frontline workers have been administered the coronavirus vaccine so far in Sindh.
According to the provincial health department, 1,192 anti-viral vaccine shots administered at Karachi’s Khaliq Dina Hall vaccination centre during the vaccination drive for the frontline health workers.
At least 462 health workers received the vaccine at Jinnah Hospital, 558 vaccine shots at Dow University Ojha Campus, 551 vaccine shots at Qatar Hospital Orangi, and 255 vaccine jabs at Sindh Government Hospital, New Karachi.
Around 615 frontline workers were vaccinated at Liaquatabad Hospital in Karachi and 268 anti-viral vaccine shots were administered to health workers at the Children Hospital, New Karachi. Moreover, 722 workers vaccinated at Sindh Government hospital, Korangi, 881 health workers were administered the COVID-19 vaccine at Urban Health Unit, Thaddo Nalo in Malir.
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Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan has asserted that the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 is not recommended for certain segments including people older than 60 years.
He further informed that Sinopharm vaccine is not recommended for people above 60 years and under 18 years old, pregnant women and lactating mothers. The special assistant said that this was not an unusual scenario. “When new medicines come, such things happen and the basis is whether that age group of the population or people with certain conditions was included in the research for it,” he added.
