As the Sindh government waits for first supply of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses by mid-January, the authorities have identified some 115,000 frontline health workers across the province who would be inoculated in the first phase of the programme in two major centres.

“We have estimated some 115,000 health workers who are working as frontliners in this pandemic,” Qasim Soomro, a Member of the Provincial Assembly from Tharparkar and parliamentary secretary told Dawn.

Soomro has been appointed one of the members of the Provincial Vaccine Administration Cell that would be headed by health secretary Dr Kazim Hussain Jatoi.

“The process has already begun to register them and the job is expected to be completed within the stipulated time," he said.

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