Around 27,000 frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) have been vaccinated against Covid-19 across the country in over one week.

As many as 77 per cent of the vaccinated HCWs belong to Sindh. The NCOC’s vaccine nerve centre has identified violations and irregularities in vaccine administration.

According to government data, since commencement of the inoculation process, 27,228 HCWs have been vaccinated — 21,121 in Sindh, 4,458 in Punjab, 691 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 274 in Islamabad Capital Territory, 239 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, 312 in Gilgit Baltistan and 133 in Balochistan.

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