Pakistan administers 10 million doses as cases decline 

People register to get a dose of the Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine at a mass vaccination center in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 3, 2021. (AFP)
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Updated 09 June 2021
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Pakistan administers 10 million doses as cases decline 

  • Pakistan now has coronavirus positivity rate of about 2.5 percent compared to over 11 percent in April 
  • 2.5 million of Pakistan’s 220 million population now fully vaccinated, 4.7 million partially vaccinated

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has administered 10 million vaccine doses as COVID-19 cases and deaths steadily decline in the country. 
Asad Umar, minister for planning and development, announced the milestone in a televised ceremony Wednesday. He asked people to get themselves vaccinated to return to a normal life. 
From the beginning of its campaign in March up to Wednesday, Pakistan counts more than 2.5 million people fully vaccinated and more than 4.7 million partially vaccinated. 
Pakistan is now seeing a single-day coronavirus positivity rate of about 2.5 percent, compared to more than 11 percent in April. 
It reported 77 COVID-19 deaths and 1,118 cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours. Pakistan has registered a total of 936,131 cases and 21,453 deaths in the pandemic.