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Pakistan’s first drive-thru vaccination centre all set to start jabbing at Lahore’s Nishter Park

LAHORE: In another significant step to boost the mass vaccination drive, the authorities in the Punjab capital are all set to launch the country’s first drive-through vaccination center, which will begin operations at the Nishtar Colony, Lahore.

Reports in city media cited that the operations of the first drive-through center will be started from Sunday while the location picked for the vaccination center is near Gaddafi Stadium – the home of Pakistan’s national cricket team.

The report further added that Assistant Commissioner Model Town Arbab Ibrahim has been appointed as focal person for the initiative of the Punjab government. Speaking with a private news channel, the focal person added that residents of the provincial capital will be able to get vaccinated without leaving their vehicles.

He also shared the development on his Twitter handle. ‘Finalising the groundwork for the first drive-through vaccination facility for the public in Pakistan to be set up in Nishter Park sports complex Lahore thanks to efforts of DC Lahore and BOP, he captioned the post.

Let it be known that the vaccination center is being made operational in collaboration with the district administration and Bank of Punjab.

Furthermore, the drive-through service in the country’s second-largest city is not the first of its kind to fight the novel disease as a drive-through testing facility was launched by a private laboratory in Lahore to facilitate the individuals who want to test for Covid-19 during the first wave of pandemic last year.

NCOC – country’s nerve center on Covid-19, has also decided to increase COVID-19 vaccination centers in ‘country’s cultural capital’. According to a report, the city has around 15 vaccination centers.

Pakistan in the latest development has officially started inoculating to everyone aged 19 or older. Nearly 8 million people across the South Asian country have been vaccinated against the novel virus so far. The country also set a new record of vaccinating nearly 0.4 million people in a single day.

PAKISTAN TO START COVID-19 VACCINE REGISTRATION FOR AGE 19 ABOVE SLAB

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