COVID-19: Over 100m people received at least 1 dose of vaccine, says Asad Umar

COVID-19: Over 100m people received at least 1 dose of vaccine, says Asad Umar

Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), said on Tuesday that over one hundred million people in Pakistan have received at least one dose of anti-COVID vaccine.

In a tweet, the minister wrote that nearly 75 million are fully vaccinated.

Describing it as another major milestone in the vaccination campaign, he however, said work is not complete yet and there is a need to keep the momentum going.

On the other hand, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 1,307,174 on Tuesday after 1,467 new cases surfaced in the country during the last 24 hours.

As per the NCOC data, 43,540 tests were conducted in last 24 hours while positivity ratio remained 3.33%.

According to the government's COVID-19 portal, the death toll related to coronavirus has reached to 28,974 with 2 fatalities reported during the last 24 hours.

Over the last twenty four hours, total number of recovered COVID-19 patients across the country reached 1,259,253 after another 266 virus recoveries were reported.