UK s £548m funding for global vaccination programme
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February 15, 2021
Islamabad: The United Kingdom has announced that Pakistan will receive seven million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine within two months.
“Through the COVAX facility, Pakistan will take the delivery of 17 million doses of the UK-developed Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine shortly with the first seven million expected before April,” the British High Commission said in a statement.
It added that the next tranche of 10 million doses was likely to reach the country by June.
“This [vaccine] will help protect 8.5 million people from the virus, which has already claimed over 12,000 lives in Pakistan,” it said.
The BHC said overall, COVAX, which stood for Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, had committed to supplying Pakistan with vaccines for 45 million people in the current year.