{"id":8043,"date":"2020-12-31T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2020-12-31T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T08:34:24","slug":"sinopharm-vaccine-for-frontline-workers-fawad-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/31\/sinopharm-vaccine-for-frontline-workers-fawad-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"SinoPharm vaccine for frontline workers, Fawad confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, confirmed early on Thursday morning that the government of Pakistan has approved procurement of SinoPharm coronavirus vaccine for its front line workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.2 million doses of the he Chinese vaccine, the first one to be approved by Beijing, will be procured, as per the approval of cabinet committee. These will then be given, free of charge, to frontline health care workers in the first quarter of 2021, Fawad Chaudhry wrote in the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also wrote that if the private sector wants to import a globally approved vaccine, it can do so. However, no further details were given about government&#8217;s plan to procure more vaccines for the general public who may not be able to afford a vaccine imported by the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Inoculation against the novel coronavirus are underway in many countries as vaccines win approvals from health departments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=gnnhdofficial&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1344495273649844224&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=http%3A%2F%2Fgnnhd.tv%2Findex.php%2FPakistan%2F20862-1609354800-SinoPharm%2520vaccine%2520for%2520frontline%2520workers%2C%2520Fawad%2520confirms&amp;siteScreenName=gnnhdofficial&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1344495273649844224\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, confirmed early on Thursday morning that the government of Pakistan has approved procurement of SinoPharm coronavirus vaccine for its front line workers. 1.2 million doses of the he Chinese vaccine, the first one to be approved by Beijing, will be procured, as per the approval of cabinet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}