China to gift half a million doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday (Jan 21) that China has agreed to provide half a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine free of cost to Pakistan by Jan 31. “They have said send your aircraft and airlift this vaccine immediately. So this is a happy bit of news for us, and we will hopefully be successful in protecting ourselves using this vaccine,” Qureshi said at a press conference in Islamabad. Pakistani regulators approved the Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use on Monday, two days after AstraZeneca's vaccine developed with Oxford University was also approved….