Pakistan: 50% of eligible population vaccinated against COVID-19

Pakistan has vaccinated half of its eligible population, aged over 12 years, against Covid-19, the Ministry of National Health Services announced on Wednesday.

Punjab became the first province to have more than half of its eligible population with at least one dose at 52 per cent. KP follows with 48 per cent, Sind 40 per cent and Balochistan at 17 per cent.

Federal territories leading in vaccination: Islamabad at 87 per cent, Azad Jammu and Kashmir at 59 per cent and Gilgit Baltistan at 54 per cent.

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