By: ChandrashekarBhat
By Chandrashekar Bhat
COVID-19 vaccination centres will remain closed in Pakistan’s Sindh province on Sunday (20) due to a shortage of jabs.
“There will be no vaccination tomorrow because of a shortage of coronavirus vaccines,” a Dawn report quoted Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah as telling a meeting of health authorities on Saturday (19).
However, the province is expected to receive 1.5 million doses of Sinovac on Monday (21), followed by 1.1 doses of Cansino and PakVac on Wednesday (23) to enable the health authorities to resume the immunisation drive. Sputnik V vaccine will be received in the last week of June, health officials said at the meeting.
As the coronavirus positivity rate is falling progressively in the province, the government has decided to reopen primary schools from Monday and amusement parks and indoor gyms will be allowed to operate a week later. Shrines will be also reopened on June 28.
Amid reports of vaccine shortages and closures of centres, Shah said only 225 mobile vaccination units had been temporarily shut and “it should not be confused with vaccination centres”, according to the report.
