COVID-19: Govt's plan to procure vaccine is insufficient to protect country's 220 million population
- Pakistan is still waiting for the United Nation’s Covax mechanism to receive around 45 million free vaccine doses that will cover country’s 20 percent population
- Many states including Turkey, Columbia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and India have already struck deals with different COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing firms
- The Pakistan government has allowed the private sector players to procure vaccine from anywhere in the world and get registered with DRAP