The first round saw the commercial sale of the two-shot Russian Sputnik-V to the general public for about Rs12,000 ($80) for a pack of two doses. “I am very happy to get it, since now it is required for travelling,” Saad Ahmed, 34, told Reuters after he got his shot at an upscale private sector hospital in Karachi. While the private sale of vaccines has begun, the government and importers are still locked in a pricing dispute. As soon as vaccination was opened for walk-in customers, there were long lines of people, Dr Nashwa Ahmed, who runs vaccination at Karachi’s South City Hospital, told Reuters. The private sales start as the country deals with a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections and healthcare facilities are fast filling to capacity.

Source: Pakistan Today April 05, 2021 06:56 UTC