Parliamentary Secretary for Health Ministry Dr Nosheen Hamid has said that the government is taking various steps to make the vaccination process easy and accessible for the general public, adding that 400,000 people would be vaccinated daily from next week.

She said the target of the government was to vaccinate over 70 million people by the end of this year, according to an APP report.

Around three million doses of anti-Covid vaccines would be imported next week, Dr Hamid said.

She said 1.5m doses of Sinovac had been recently purchased from China and would be delivered to all vaccination centres soon.

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