Pakistan to buy 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm
01 January, 2021
Pakistan will get 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, a minister stated on Thursday (Dec 31).
"The Cabinet Committee features decided to initially pay for 1.2 million doses of the vaccine from the Chinese company Sinopharm, which is provided cost free to frontline personnel in the first quarter of 2021," Pakistani Minister for Research and Technology said on Twitter.
China approved a good COVID-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate marketer of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on Thursday, its first approved shot for general public use.
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