Pakistan is in the process of speaking to a number of vaccine makers, but this is the first local approval.Earlier, according to reports, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said the government was confident of acquiring the anti-COVID vaccine by the first quarter of this year but is adopting a ‘look-before-you-leap’ strategy to ensure procurement of medicine of the highest efficacy.“Our target is to procure the vaccine in the first quarter of the current year, and we are confident of doing so.
But it is quite difficult to say on which date we will acquire the vaccine," he was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper on Friday.He said trials of the vaccine produced by the Chinese firm, Cansino, were near.