ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday received another 120,000 doses of the Chinese COVID vaccine as supplies increase and more people are inoculated against the vaccine.
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying the vaccine doses purchased from China landed at Islamabad airport this morning. The officials of the National Institute of Health (NIH) received the vaccine shipment.
Pakistan has signed contracts for the purchase of the COVID vaccine with several pharmaceutical companies including Chinese firms. The plane carrying the vaccine doses have been purchased by Pakistan from China.
Last week, three special airplanes of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying one million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China reached Islamabad.
The government dispatched three Boeing-777 PIA airplanes to China to accelerate the delivery of vaccines to combat the coronavirus epidemic.
Earlier on April 25, three PIA planes carrying a consignment of one million COVID-19 vaccine doses had landed in Islamabad. Pakistan will receive two million doses of coronavirus vaccine from China by the end of this week.
