ISLAMABAD \u2013 More than 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in Pakistan on July 19 for the first time, head of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe increasing number of vaccination is encouraging but it needs to be sped up further so all social and economic restrictions are lifted,\u201d chairman NCOC Asad Umar, who is also pla ng and development minister, tweeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cRestrictions are inevitable until a large part of the country\u2019s population get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier today, Asad Umar tweeted: \u201cUK is an excellent lesson of vaccination minimizing health impact of covid. See the graphs below. Cases have risen in current wave in UK at about the same rate as previous wave, but number of people needing hospitalization is much less due to high rate of vaccination achieved.\u201d = DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD \u2013 More than 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in Pakistan on July 19 for the first time, head of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Asad Umar said on Tuesday. \u201cThe increasing number of vaccination is encouraging but it needs to be sped up further so all social and economic restrictions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n