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Pakistan sees lowest Covid positivity ratio


June 9, 2021

ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan records this year’s lowest positivity ratio of Covid-19, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to intensify vaccination efforts by recommending the mechanism adopted for teachers’ vaccination to all other ministries as well. Also, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) issued an advisory on Pfizer vaccine. In addition to vaccination efforts, the authorities …

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Pakistan administers 10 millionth Covid vaccine dose


June 9, 2021

Pakistan administered the 10 millionth Covid-19 vaccine dose on Wednesday, with Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Asad Umar announcing that the authorities aimed to inoculate 70 million people by the end of this year. Speaking at a ceremony held to mark the deliverance of the 10 millionth dose, Umar said around seven million people had been administered vaccine …

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‘Unlikely that faulty tracks responsible for crash’: Swati on initial probe into Ghotki train accident


June 9, 2021

Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati said on Wednesday that it was unlikely that a fault in an eight-mile (12.87 kilometres) stretch of railway tracks was responsible for the recent train accident in Ghotki. Two passenger trains collided near Daharki on Monday, a city located in the Ghotki district of upper Sindh when a Millat Express train — headed from …

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