Out of a population of 220 million, only 6.7 million people have been fully vaccinated, according to the National Command and Operations Centre. The federal government announced late last month it would ban staff from entering public offices, schools, restaurants, transport, shopping malls and air travel without vaccination certificates. The announcement prompted an immediate rise in vaccination rates, which hit one million a day last week. Around 70 percent of the new cases are the Delta variant and more than 4,000 people in critical condition, officials said. The country has recorded more than one million infections and around 23,600 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

Source: Pakistan Today August 05, 2021 10:52 UTC