{"id":6740,"date":"2022-03-06T16:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2022-03-06T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:48:25","slug":"who-congratulates-pakistan-for-vaccinating-100-million-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/who-congratulates-pakistan-for-vaccinating-100-million-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO congratulates Pakistan for vaccinating 100 million citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday congratulated Pakistan on vaccinating 100 million citizens against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeartiest Congratulations to Pakistan,\u201d the WHO wrote on Twitter.<br \/>\n&#8220;The WHO applauds Govt of Pakistan for having over 100 million individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHOPakistan\/status\/1500479338063568901?s=20&#038;t=wqFA92SNhot3x46imPb5Ug<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indicates the tremendous efforts made by the Government of Pakistan in ensuring that everyone across the country has access to COVID-19 vaccination,\u201d the tweet said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Faisal Sultan has also announced the news on the microblogging platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100 million Pakistanis have been vaccinated against COVID-19,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 100 million individuals fully vaccinated against Covid in Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Faisal Sultan (@fslsltn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fslsltn\/status\/1500445787230142467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 positivity rate in Pakistan dropped to 2% on March 6, the lowest level in the last two months as per data issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the positivity ratio dropped this low was on January 5 when the country reported a 1.8% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>The latest stats show that Pakistan logged only 755 new cases of coronavirus, pushing the overall case count to 1,514,258 in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>The national COVID-19 body said that the new infections were detected when it conducted 37,661 diagnostic tests countrywide during the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the country&#8217;s daily COVID-19 death toll fell below 10 once again as only seven people succumbed to the virus overnight, pushing the total number of deaths to 30,265.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the active case count after the recent deaths and 886 recoveries further diminished to 29,611.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday congratulated Pakistan on vaccinating 100 million citizens against COVID-19. \u201cHeartiest Congratulations to Pakistan,\u201d the WHO wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The WHO applauds Govt of Pakistan for having over 100 million individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 virus.&#8221; https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHOPakistan\/status\/1500479338063568901?s=20&#038;t=wqFA92SNhot3x46imPb5Ug \u201cThis indicates the tremendous efforts made by the Government of Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[3913,438,623,945,138,273],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","tag-covid-19-virus","tag-twitter","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-pakistan","tag-pti-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}