Pakistan Receives First Shipment of Single-Dose Chinese Vaccine

Pakistan has received the first shipment of 60,000 doses of single-dose Chinese vaccine Convidecia on Tuesday night.

According to the National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination (NHSR&C) officials, the Convidecia vaccine, developed by the CanSino Biologics Inc, will be distributed across all provinces and federating units starting from Wednesday.

An NHSR&C  official said, “A commercial flight carrying 60,000 doses of Chinese single-dose vaccine Convidecia has just landed at Islamabad International Airport and it is being shifted to the federal storage. Its distribution to provinces and other federating units would commence from Wednesday”.


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The single-dose vaccine will only be administered to senior citizens above 80 years of age so that they do not have to visit the vaccination centers twice, and separate Adult Vaccination Centers (AVCs) would be set up to facilitate them.

“Owing to its availability in small quantity, it is recommended that it should only be administered in large cities with a high number of COVID-19 cases”, the NCOC communique said to all the federating units.


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The NCOC has further instructed that without registration no one will be administered a single-dose vaccine.

Besides, Pakistan will also be receiving the CanSino Biologics COVID-19 vaccine in bulk from China by mid-April.



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