Karachi: People queue up as they wait for their turn to receive the COVID vaccine
The vaccination process was reportedly put on hold at the Karachi Expo Center after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19. According to ARY News, several people, including students, labourers, senior citizens, queued up outside the Karachi Expo Center on Saturday after the provincial government announced the blocking of SIM cards of unvaccinated citizens, which is the city’s biggest vaccination campaign. is the center.
A Pakistani news channel said a glass door of the vaccination center hall number 4 broke and a security guard was also injured as a result of the scuffle outside the centre.
The head of the National Command and Operation Center announced yesterday that the last date for vaccination for employees of hotels and restaurants, train service, public transport, employees of government offices and those working in shops and markets would be August 31. “After this deadline, non-vaccinated people will not be allowed to work,” he announced.
It is to be noted that the Sindh government had yesterday imposed a lockdown till August 8 as the province grapples with an alarming surge in COVID-19 infections.
Earlier in the day, the Sindh government announced easing of lockdown restrictions notified yesterday, lifting pillar riding restrictions and allowing areas that are fully vaccinated to operate.
Addressing a press conference, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab said that it was because of the decisions taken by the Sindh government, including blocking of mobile SIMs, that led to a manifold increase in the vaccination process.
According to the statement issued by the Sindh Chief Minister’s Office, 30 more people succumbed to the disease during this period, taking the death toll to 6,001. “30 more patients of COVID-19 died overnight, raising the death toll to 6,001, with a 1.6 per cent fatality rate and 2,772 new cases, when 18,267 tests were conducted,” the statement said. which came to the current detection rate of 15.1 percent.
So far 5,008,192 tests have been conducted, out of which 382,848 cases have been detected as COVID. Of them, 86.8 per cent or 332,409 patients have been cured, including 607 overnight.
According to the statement, out of 2,772 new cases, 2,200 have been detected from Karachi, ARY News reported.
(with ANI inputs)
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