Pakistan receives one other batch of three.5m Pfizer vaccine doses from US

This takes the overall “variety of COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the USA to Pakistan to fifteen.7 million,” the US Embassy in Islamabad wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, the US donated 6.6 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan.

The US Embassy in Islamabad had introduced that the tranche of the vaccines had been shipped to Pakistan, including that it could assist the nation inoculate younger and at-risk residents.

On August 26, the US had donated 3.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan below the COVAX programme. The donation got here along with the 5.5 million Moderna vaccine doses donated by the US authorities to Pakistan in July.

Learn extra: Pakistan’s fourth COVID-19 wave weakens as nation information decline in positivity price, energetic instances

What’s the present standing of coronavirus in Pakistan?

Pakistan has been recording a sluggish decline in its day by day COVID-19 numbers over the past two days, with 2,714 contemporary instances reported Wednesday morning, the Nationwide Command and Operation Centre’s statistics confirmed.

Based on the NCOC’s newest stats, the positivity price fell to 4.78%. The final time the nation’s positivity price was lower than 5% was on July 24.

The two,714 new instances have been detected after 56,733 coronavirus assessments have been taken within the final 24 hours. This pushes the overall variety of instances to 1,212,809.

There’s a small downward development in day by day numbers, with energetic instances going below 80,000 for the primary time since early August. The variety of energetic instances presently are 77,532.

Within the final 24 hours, one other 73 individuals have died of COVID-19, pushing the demise toll to 26,938.

The overall recoveries crossed the 1.1 million mark after 10,923 individuals recovered from the virus within the final 24 hours. As of now, some 1,108,339 sufferers have recovered.

What’s the standing of vaccinations in Pakistan?

Pakistan has administered no less than 68,227,337 doses of COVID vaccines to this point. Assuming each individual wants 2 doses, that’s sufficient to have vaccinated about 15.8% of the nation’s inhabitants.

Over the last week reported, Pakistan averaged about 1,040,926 doses administered every day. At that price, it should take an additional 42 days to manage sufficient doses for one more 10% of the inhabitants.