A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. The health ministry has sought the budget as an additional supplementary grant since the government has not allocated adequate funds in the recently approved budget for vaccine procurement. The finance ministry has already provided nearly $450m for vaccine procurements for the months of June and July from the budget. Unlike the practice of routing summaries related to supplementary funds through the ECC, the health ministry has started sending the summaries directly to the cabinet that results in lesser scrutiny of the additional demands. As per the health ministry, only 99.5 million of the population is eligible for the Covid-19 vaccination.

Source: The Express Tribune July 28, 2021 04:52 UTC