The provincial government has requisitioned the federal government for troops of Pakistan Army and Rangers to help the civil administration and police to strictly implement the NCOC guidelines. Reuters/File
LAHORE: Punjab health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Sunday said the province had made a commitment to the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) to increase its vaccination dispensation to around 35,000 over-50-year old people in the province to control exponential increase in the coronavirus infectivity rate.
Speaking at a news conference at the chief minister’s secretariat here, she said oxygen availability in Punjab’s hospitals was satisfactory and the industries department had been asked to divert its oxygen share to the health department to ensure ample supply for the Covid patients.