Pace of the Covid vaccination drive is ‘dead slow’ in Punjab as the government is vaccinating 51,667 people daily on average against adult population of 0.42m, a daily target set by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to inoculate all 67m ‘eligible’ people by the end of December.

The provincial government had started Covid vaccination in the first week of March to achieve the target by the end of 2021.

However, till June 1, the government has vaccinated only 4.2m people out of 67m total target population in Punjab, which constitutes 6.3pc only, showing desperately low coverage to fight the pandemic.

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