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Over 150,000 people get COVID-19 vaccine daily

By Our Correspondent
August 08, 2021

KARACHI: The newly-appointed Karachi Metropolitan Corporation administrator, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, has expressed pleasure at the fact that 150,000 people in Karachi consistently got the coronavirus vaccine daily between Thursday and Saturday.

Wahab, who also acts as the spokesman for the Sindh government, inaugurated on Saturday

the drive-through vaccination facility at the Afghan Ground in Federal B Area.

He said that up to 231,000 people were inoculated against Covid-19 in Sindh in last 24 hours.

He added that a record number of 290,000 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19 in Sindh in a single day a few days back.

He said that in the initial days of the coronavirus inoculation campaign, only up to 50,000 to 55,000

people had been getting coronavirus vaccine in the province in a single day.