KARACHI:The Project Director, EPI Sindh, Health Department, Government of Sindh, announced Thursday that Sindh has emerged with distinction of being first province in the country having achieved the target of 34.29 million (100pc) of eligible population, aged 12 years and above, as fully immunized against Covid-19 in comparison to Punjab (86%) and KPK (64%).

The project director further said that 07.55 million of them had also received additional booster doses of vaccine. This all became possible because of selflessness and dedication on the part of thousands of frontline healthcare workers under technical guidance of Expanded Program on Immunization Sindh with the support from NCOC, Federal Ministry of Health and Services, WHO, UNICEF and other partner organizations, he said.

However, the coronavirus pandemic is still not over as new variants are continuously detected. People need to follow prescribed SOPs and get Covid booster dose after every five months of last jab. Vaccine is safe and reliable source of protection against deadly infection. It is provided free of cost by government institutions, the projector director added.