Pakistan Records 3,084 COVID-19 Cases in 24 Hours
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Confirmed infections of COVID-19 reach 864,557, against 766,492 recoveries and 19,106 deaths, leaving 78,959 active cases
Pakistan on Tuesday reported 3,084 new infections of COVID-19 after conducting 38,883 tests a positivity ratio of 7.93 percent.
Sindh Health Minister Dr. Azra Pechucho over the weekend announced that the province would start vaccinating people below 40 against the coronavirus after Eidul Fitr. While inaugurating a COVID-19 mass vaccination facility at Karachi’s Expo Center, she said that the provincial authorities were launching a walk-in system so all eligible groups could be vaccinated without having to pre-register and wait for their turn to be inoculated.
Karachi
May 11, 2021
The Sindh government is doing away with the condition of prior registration for getting the Covid-19 jab and instead a walk-in system is being introduced at the vaccination centres of the province.
This was disclosed by Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho who on Sunday inaugurated Pakistanâs biggest mass coronavirus vaccination facility at the Karachi Expo Centre.
Any eligible person can just walk in at the Expo Centre and get themself registered there without any prior requirement at any of the registration counters.
A visitor to the Expo Centre is just required to carry his or her computerised national identity card for the purpose. The names of the walk-in visitors are later fed to the national Covid-19 vaccine registration database.
National
May 11, 2021
KARACHI: The Sindh government is doing away with the condition of prior registration for getting the Covid-19 jab and instead a walk-in system is being introduced at the vaccination centres of the province.
This was disclosed by Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho who on Sunday inaugurated Pakistan’s biggest mass coronavirus vaccination facility at the Karachi Expo Centre.
Any eligible person can just walk in at the Expo Centre and get themself registered there without any prior requirement at any of the registration counters.
A visitor to the Expo Centre is just required to carry his or her computerised national identity card for the purpose. The names of the walk-in visitors are later fed to the national Covid-19 vaccine registration database. The Sindh government is also going to start vaccinating people below 40 years of age from May 16. It will be the first province in the country to do so. The Expo Centre mass vaccination centre has been es
Karachi: Sindh is going to become the first province in Pakistan to start vaccinating people below 40 years of age against coronavirus from May 16.
This was disclosed by Sindh Health Minister Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho as she inaugurated the Pakistan’s largest COVID-19 mass vaccination facility at the Expo Centre Karachi.
Sindh Health Minister said that the coronavirus vaccination would be provided to people of all eligible age groups in the province free of charge.
She said that a walk-in system had been launched to instantly vaccinate any eligible person without the system of prior registration using the cell phone.
She said the process was on to increase the number of vaccination centres in the province.
Sindh aims to vaccinate 100,000 people every day
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Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has instructed the health department to vaccinate 100,000 people in the province every day. Capacity to administer 50,000 doses should be created at the Karachi Expo Centre, he directed at the meeting of the Sindh Coronavirus Task Force on Monday.
The minister ensured that vaccination centres across the province will remain open on Eid holidays. In the last 24 hours, 16 people died from the deadly virus in Sindh.