KARACHI: Pakistan’s largest vaccination facility Expo Centre in Karachi has reportedly gone out of stock.
According to reports, there is a shortage of Chinese vaccines – Sinopharm, SinoVac and CanSino – at the vaccination centre. The centre is only administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been recommended for citizens aged 40 and above.
The process of vaccination the citizens coming for vaccination is underway in Halls 3 and 4 of the Expo Centre and more than 30,000 vaccines are being administered daily. Officials said stocks of the vaccine will arrive in a few hours and they will resume the vaccination drive.
A week ago, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said the capacity of Pakistan’s largest COVID-19 mass vaccination facility at the Expo Centre had been expanded by the addition of another hall.
He said the Expo Centre can now vaccinate up to 40,000 people in a day, adding that there are 380 vaccination centres in the province including 115 were in Karachi.
Sindh has the capacity of vaccinating up to 200,000 people daily, while up to 100,000 people could be vaccinated in Karachi alone.
Of the 250 mobile vaccination units in Sindh, 157 are in Karachi. He said that these units would be particularly used for vaccinating workers of industrial and commercial centres and elderly persons.
CM Sindh had said that all staff members of schools should receive the jab before the reopening of educational institutions. All retailers in the province had to get the vaccine and keep proof of the vaccination at the shop.
He said that up to 70 percent of Sindh Police personnel and 90 percent of the healthcare workers had been vaccinated. A total of 1.3 million people in Sindh had received the jab including 800,000 in Karachi.
