March 5, 2021
Pakistan going for ‘herd immunity’ against COVID-19, PAC told
ISLAMABAD: The Public Account’s Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly has been told by the by the National Health Service (NHS) Secretary Amir Ashraf Khawaja that Pakistan was moving towards the strategy of “Herd Immunity” in the fight against COVID 19. The PAC was told that a survey had been done and that 15% of Pakistan’s population had COVID-19 antibodies and that 100 million people, around 50% of Pakistan’s population would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. In the first phase, frontline healthcare workers and the elderly with medical conditions would get vaccinated while in the second phase, all healthcare


