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Islamabad: Authorities in Pakistan are expecting an early arrival of COVID-19 vaccine after the Chinese government’s announcement that it had issued directions to its companies to “speed up export of vaccines to Pakistan”. The Pakistan government had earlier given the first quarter of the current year as the most probable time for vaccine procurement. However, after the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s announcement, it hopes to have it sooner. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying a day earlier had announced at a media briefing that China would provide a ‘batch of vaccines’ to Pakistan as ‘aid’ and assured it would direct...
