ISLAMABAD: On Thursday, the Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan is expected to receive the first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine from China by January 31, 2021.
“Pakistan held fruitful talks with China with regard to obtaining the coronavirus vaccine,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a media briefing here in the federal capital, praising the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) for doing a “great job during the pandemic”.
FM Qureshi said, “China has promised to send Pakistan 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in good faith,” adding that Beijing would send more of it by February 2021.
The foreign minister lauded the COVID-19 patients for their courage in the fight against the deadly virus. “Pakistan successfully fought the coronavirus [pandemic],” he added.