{"id":13135,"date":"2023-01-03T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13135"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:04:43","slug":"pm-shehbaz-directs-immediate-covid-vaccination-of-children-aged-5-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-directs-immediate-covid-vaccination-of-children-aged-5-12\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz directs immediate COVID vaccination of children aged 5-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

PM Shehbaz directs immediate COVID vaccination of children aged 5-12. Expressing satisfaction over the COVID-19 situation, which is currently under control in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif<\/a> on Tuesday, directed the authorities concerned to ensure the vaccination of children aged 5-12 years on an urgent basis.<\/p>\n

The prime minister, who chaired the meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in the country, instructed the officials to further improve screening at border points as well as airports.<\/p>\n

He also sought a report on a third-party evaluation of the screening process at border points and airports.<\/p>\n

PM Shehbaz said it was pleasing to note that no COVID-related death was reported from across the country in the last 15 weeks, while the whole nation was grateful to the countries that donated vaccines to Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said the decline in the rate of COVID infection was pleasing but \u201cwe have to be alert all times\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Global surge: Pakistan tightens screening for new COVID-19 variant at airports<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

He appreciated the efforts by the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) and other relevant office bearers for containing the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, the prime minister was briefed about the current COVID situation, new variants, ongoing efforts, and the status of vaccination.<\/p>\n

It was told that Pakistan apparently faced no threat from the new variant as almost 90% of the population was fully vaccinated and 95% partially vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Around five million children of 5-12 years of age have been vaccinated which was 25% of the total strength and the target of full vaccination would be achieved within the next few months.<\/p>\n

The meeting was told that the average infection rate was hovering around 0.2-0.5% in the country.<\/p>\n

He informed the participants of the meeting that an effective mechanism was in place at the borders to contain the influx of COVID into the country.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the rate of random sampling at the airport has been increased to 2% besides ensuring the fumigation of the planes coming from the affected countries.<\/p>\n

It was told that Pakistan was among very few countries where genomic surveillance of COVID has been introduced to ensure early detection of the new variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PM Shehbaz directs immediate COVID vaccination of children aged 5-12. Expressing satisfaction over the COVID-19 situation, which is currently under control in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday, directed the authorities concerned to ensure the vaccination of children aged 5-12 years on an urgent basis. The prime minister, who chaired the meeting to review […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[584,3866,582,623,367],"class_list":["post-13135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pakistan","tag-covid-19","tag-national-command-and-operations-centre","tag-ncoc","tag-who","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}