PHOTO: REUTERSExpress News efforts paid off as the federal government has finally decided to vaccinate foreign nationals residing in the country against the novel coronavirus – Covid-19. “Vaccination of foreign healthcare workers and other foreigners over 60 years may be started from today [Monday] onwards,” the notification read. Manual data of vaccinated foreigners will be compiled and adjusted to the National Database and Registration Authority's (Nadra) system, according to the the communiqué. Speaking to The Express Tribune, a number of foreigners had complained that the Ministry of Health has adopted a discriminatory attitude by not providing them with any facility to get Covid-19 vaccine jab. They had said "there is neither any arrangement to provide the foreigners with a coronavirus vaccine nor any strategy in place to get them vaccinated" against the viral disease.

Source: The Express Tribune April 05, 2021 19:30 UTC