One in two intensive care beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients and non-essential procedures are still being postponed to ease the burden on hospitals.
Johnson said more than 1.3 million people had been vaccinated as of Tuesday afternoon, adding that nearly 1,000 vaccination sites would be ready by the end of the week.
Addressing the ceremony, Dr. Yasmin said the initiative had been launched in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar.
The prime minister directed for making the Punjab Cooperative Department functional through which the financial support to the farmers would be extended.
The government would convert them to regular schools as education provided in the madrasas could not prepare anyone for "the temporal world and its earthly concerns", he said.
Extending invitation to the victims’ families for visiting Islamabad to meet Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, he urged them to bury the bodies of their loved ones as early as possible.
The speaker directed the Special Assistant to link up all the provincial educational institutes with the relevant institutions of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The government would construct 150 percent more roads than the previous governments, which already contributed 1,600 kilometers roads in the system to date.
Calling the export enhancement a major pillar of his government's economic policy, the prime minister assured to provide full support for promotion of the export culture.