Pakistan to buy 1.2 million doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine
Pakistan on Thursday said it will buy 1.2 million doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, the first official COVID-19 vaccine purchase of the country. The vaccine will be provided for free to frontline workers in the first quarter of 2021, Science & Technology Minister Fawad Hussain said. Earlier, the Pakistan government had approved $150 million in funding to buy vaccines. 