Rising mortality in the midst of the third Covid-19 wave and growing anxiety in the business circles over possible restrictions on international travel and trade necessitate ramping up the pace of vaccination in Pakistan.
To speed up inoculations, the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan will need to bridge vaccine supply gaps with active participation from the federating units and the private sector. The current pace of putting jabs in the arms is slow. Federal Minister Asad Umar in a news conference last week said 1.3 million Pakistanis had so far got vaccinated at government facilities and 18,000 paid to get vaccine shots at private hospitals.