The ADB chief stated Pakistan was aiming to vaccinate all the eligible inhabitants round 119 million folks comprising all these aged 18 years and above.
The monetary assist will strengthen Pakistan’s capability to implement its vaccination programme by enabling it to buy an estimated 39.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, security packing containers, and syringes.
- PTI Islamabad
- Last Updated:August 07, 2021, 00:07 IST
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The Asian Development Bank on Friday accepted a USD 500 million mortgage for debt-ridden Pakistan to assist it purchase coronavirus vaccines. The mortgage was sanctioned beneath ADB’s USD 9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility launched in December 2020, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa stated in a press release.
The monetary assist will strengthen Pakistan’s capability to implement its vaccination programme by enabling it to buy an estimated 39.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, security packing containers, and syringes. The ADB chief stated Pakistan was aiming to vaccinate all the eligible inhabitants round 119 million folks comprising all these aged 18 years and above.
ADB’s Covid-19 vaccine assist venture will present financing to vaccinate over 18m folks from precedence teams, he stated, including that these teams embrace frontline well being care staff, the aged, marginalised teams together with refugees and internally displaced individuals, and folks with comorbidities. The ADB helps Pakistan in preventing the pandemic and it in May final yr had accepted a $300 million emergency help for Pakistan to strengthen its public well being response to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the well being ministry, over 35.3 million doses have been administered thus far in Pakistan and the federal government goals at vaccinating over 70 million folks by the top of this yr.
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