July 25, 2021
KARACHI: Allowing Pakistani citizens, already vaccinated with Chinese or Russian Covid-19 vaccines, to get ‘top up’ jabs of American or European vaccines including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca for travel purposes is ‘not a first priority’ at the moment but a solution to this issue would be found soon, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Dr. Faisal Sultan said on Saturday.
“Pakistani citizens already vaccinated are ‘not yet’ allowed to get a travel top up (with any American or European vaccine). This travel top up may come but (we will) have to look into many aspects,” SAPM Dr. Faisal Sultan told The News in response to queries if people would be allowed to have additional jabs of vaccines acceptable to some European, Middle Eastern countries and the United States.
July 25, 2021
KARACHI: Allowing Pakistani citizens, already vaccinated with Chinese or Russian Covid-19 vaccines, to get ‘top up’ jabs of American or European vaccines including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca for travel purposes is ‘not a first priority’ at the moment but a solution to this issue would be found soon, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Dr. Faisal Sultan said on Saturday.
“Pakistani citizens already vaccinated are ‘not yet’ allowed to get a travel top up (with any American or European vaccine).
This travel top up may come but (we will) have to look into many aspects,” SAPM Dr. Faisal Sultan told The News in response to queries if people would be allowed to have additional jabs of vaccines acceptable to some European, Middle Eastern countries and the United States. At this point in time, Pakistan s National Immunization Management System (NIMS) linked with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) does not allow a person to get vacci