Covid-19 Vaccination and Immunization Barriers in Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.51985/BFMT6892Abstract
From January 2020 to May 2021, Pakistan quoted to World
health Organization 858,026 confirmed cases and 18,915
deaths of COVID - 19. China donated Pakistan Sinopharm
vaccines in February 2021, and the stagewise immunization
program started with an enrolment of healthcare workers
and the elderly at priority. A total of 2,894,861 vaccine doses
have been administered as per statistics of the earlier half
of May 2021, which is approximately only 3% of the total
population and target for this year is 30%. 1 Several wild
conspiracy theories sprouting throughout the community is
fuelling the misleading narratives of vulnerable population
of Pakistan leading to increased Skeptism against covid-19
vaccine .Of theses alleged claims of religious prohibitions
plea that virus was an illusion against Islam to empower
Jews and through vaccine nano chips will be inoculated in
people to gain control through 5G towers.
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