US to ship 9.6m doses of Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan

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The US is shipping an additional 9.6 million doses of Pfizer vaccines through the Covax facility to Pakistan, according to a statement issued by the US embassy in Islamabad.

The delivery will bring the total number of Covid-19 vaccines given by the US government to Pakistan to more than 25 million, the statement said.

“The United States is proud to partner with Pakistan to get effective, life-saving Pfizer vaccinations into the arms of Pakistanis, and Pakistan has done a great job of distributing our donated vaccines,” said US Embassy Chargé d’affaires Angela P. Aggeler.

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