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Pakistan began vaccinating people aged 60 years or above on March 10. Reuters/File
The government on Sunday denied reports on social media that elderly citizens could walk into Lahore s Expo Centre to get vaccinated against the coronavirus without an appointment.
Officials stressed that registered citizens must wait to receive a pin code via SMS before proceeding to their assigned vaccination centre.
The confusion was caused by a message that was widely shared on social media on Saturday three days after Pakistan rolled out vaccination for people aged 60 years or older. The text quoted staff at Expo Centre Lahore as saying that anyone over 60 can walk in with an ID card and get vaccinated without waiting for the SMS code .
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March 13, 2021
LAHORE: As many as 36 patients died of COVID-19 while another 1632 new infections were confirmed in Punjab province during the last 24 hours. Besides, in the federal capital and Rawalpindi district another 477 patients were tested positive in the last 24 hours along with seven deaths.
According to report issued by Primary and Secondary Healthcare (P&SH) Department Punjab on Friday, the toll of fatalities so far was raised to 5,698 in Punjab, while confirmed cases of coronavirus reached 182,576 in the province.
As per the spokesperson of Corona Monitoring Room at Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department, as many as 15,736 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours, which raised the total number of tests to 3,480,725 in the province.
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LAHORE:
As Punjab’s vaccination scheme enters its second phase, the province has once again found itself in the grips of yet another coronavirus wave.
Amid surging cases, the province has been able to vaccinate a majority of its frontline health workers, now proceeding to administer the life-saving serum to those aged 60 and above. According to National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) records, there are over 7,500,000 people, including both men and women, due for vaccination in Punjab. Yet however, only 300,000 people have so far registered despite the government setting up separate counters across the province, in addition to the inoculat
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