Pakistan has received another shipment of 3.5 million COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines from the United States, as per the US Embassy in Islamabad.
This takes the total “number of COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the United States to Pakistan to 15.7 million,” the US Embassy in Islamabad wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, the US donated 6.6 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan.
The US Embassy in Islamabad had announced that the vaccines had been shipped to Pakistan, adding that it would help the country inoculate young and at-risk citizens.
On August 26, the US had donated 3.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan under the COVAX programme. The donation came in addition to the 5.5 million Moderna vaccine doses donated by the US government to Pakistan in July.