Pakistan receives fresh 15 million Chinese Covid-19 vaccines
Gwadar Pro
Islamabad: State-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has transported fresh consignments of 15 million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines by five special flights from the International Airport Beijing to Islamabad.
Chinese vaccine companies are already engaging in joint production in Pakistan and the Chinese side would stand together with Pakistan to help it defeat the virus.
China and Pakistan have been supporting each other since the outbreak of the Covid-19. When China was in middle of anti-epidemic war, Pakistan was among the first to help China.
China responded in a big way by helping and assisting Pakistan with testing agents, masks protective suits and vaccines. These were concrete steps illustrating iron brother relationship between the two countries.
As per latest figure, Pakistan had vaccinated 25% of its total population and 37% of its eligible population against the novel coronavirus.
Importantly, Pakistan was the first country in the world, which received a coronavirus vaccine from China as a donation. On February 01, last year, the first batch of 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by the Chinese government arrived by a special plane in Islamabad.
Later, on February 8, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) delivered a batch of Covid-19 vaccines to the Pakistan Armed Forces at the latter’s request.
In a statement, PIA Country Manager Qadir Bux Sangi said the national flag carrier had launched special flights PAK-6852, PAK-6853, PK-6856, PK-6857 and PK-6858 respectively and airlifted fresh consignments of Sinovac vaccine from December 10 to December 15.
He informed that a PIA special flight PK-6858 carrying three million doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines left the Chinese capital on Wednesday.
Last week, Pakistan Ambassador to China, Moinul Haque had thanked China for standing by Pakistan during testing times, including the fight against COVID-19.
Just a few days ago, 200,000 doses of vaccines from China Red Cross Society were also transported to Islamabad.
