COVID: Pakistan to vaccinate teenagers from Monday.
According to the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), Pakistan will start immunizing adolescents in the age group of 15-17 against Covid-19 starting Monday.
Speaking to Dawn news, National Health Services Ministry spokesperson Sajid Shah said: “They will be given the Pfizer vaccine and the facility will be free of cost. Therefore children in this age group are advised to come to the immunization centers with their Form B.” Visit the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra).
The Pfizer vaccine will be available at all major immunization centers… We are also making arrangements to send teams to educational institutions to vaccinate children.
On 24 August, Health Minister Faisal Sultan announced that people over the age of 17 would be able to receive the first dose of a COVID jab from 1 September and be fully vaccinated by 15 October.
He said the date for vaccinating people in the age group of 15 to 17 years would be announced later.
The country has so far given 67,342,288 doses of Kovid-19 vaccines.
In the last 24 hours, 3,480 more people tested positive for the virus and 82 others died, taking Pakistan’s total infection and death toll to 1,201,367 and 26,662 respectively.
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