Punjab plans to increase vaccinations to control Covid spread

On Sunday, Punjab health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid stated that the province had made a commitment to the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) to increase its vaccination dispensation to around 35,000 over-50-year old people in the province to control the exponential increase in the coronavirus infectivity rate.

Speaking at a news conference at the chief minister’s secretariat here, she said oxygen availability in Punjab’s hospitals was satisfactory and the industries department had been asked to divert its oxygen share to the health department to ensure ample supply for the Covid patients.

In order to have ample oxygen stock, the minister said the health department had also suspended elective surgeries in the public hospitals of the province.