The National Command and Operation Centre, in its daily meeting, has been told that a special plane will fly to China tomorrow to bring back the first batch of the 500,000 does of Covid-19 vaccine that China had promised to provide.

"All necessary measures have been put in place for vaccine storage at Islamabad and [transporting] of vaccine to various federating units particularly to Sindh and Balochistan through air," according to a statement released after the meeting.

It added that a central control cell has been established at the NCOC while cells have also been set up at provincial and district levels for the vaccination drive.

The forum "deliberated in length about vaccine administration strategy across Pakistan, administrative measures and particularly the movement of the initial tranche of the vaccine".