ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) today (Friday) announced that senior citizens aged above 65 years will be able to avail walk-in vaccination facility from April 3.
Taking to Twitter, the NCOC said people can visit any vaccination centre from April 3 (tomorrow) with their CNIC to get themselves vaccinated against the coronavirus after on-spot registration.
Senior citizen above 65 years can now walk in to any designated vaccination center with their CNIC to get on spot registration and vaccination, with effect from 3rd April 21.
— NCOC (@OfficialNcoc) April 2, 2021
Meanwhile, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar chaired a meeting of the NCOC to take stock of reported surge in COVID cases among children.
“There is no deviation in positivity ratio in children as compared to previous waves statistics,” the NCOC said, adding that during all three waves, infection ratio in children aged between 1-10 years remained around 3% of total cases.
The meeting also expressed concern over violation of the government-defined SOPs, including mask wearing and social distancing as well as business closure timings. It, however, expressed sanctification over the procurement of COVID-19 vaccine.
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