More than 20m people fully vaccinated against Covid-19: Asad Umar

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Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Friday said that more than 20 million people had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in Pakistan.

" 5 crore (50 million) people have received at least one dose [of the vaccine]," Umar added.

The planning minister further expressed his confidence in surpassing the ‘daunting target’ of vaccinating 70 million people by the end of this year.

In the early days of the vaccination campaign we had set a daunting target of vaccinating 7 crore people by the end of this year. Happy to report that 5 crore people have now recieved atleast 1 dose. More than 2 crore fully vaccinated. Inshallah will meet & surpass the target.
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) September 10, 2021

Earlier, Umar said at least 35 per cent of the eligible population in the country had received at least one dose of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine.

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Giving the province wise break up in his earlier tweets, Umar said 69 per cent of Islamabad’s population, 51 per cent of Azad Kashmir’s, 39 per cent of Gilgit Baltistan’s, 37 per cent of Punjab’s population, 35 per cent of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s, 32 per cent of Sindh and 12 per cent of Balochistan population had received at least one vaccine dose.

The NCOC head had also said that vaccination targets have been set for 24 large cities by the end of September.

"These are tough targets, specially for full vaccination but achievable with a focused effort and high quality execution inshallah," the minister added.

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