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Covid-19 Vaccination and Immunization Barriers in Pakistan
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Covid-19 Vaccination and Immunization Barriers in Pakistan
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Publisher: Bahria University Medical And Dental College
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Abstract
From January 2020 to May 2021, Pakistan quoted to Worldhealth Organization 858,026 confirmed cases and 18,915deaths of COVID - 19. China donated Pakistan Sinopharmvaccines in February 2021, and the stagewise immunizationprogram started with an enrolment of healthcare workersand the elderly at priority. A total of 2,894,861 vaccine doseshave been administered as per statistics of the earlier halfof May 2021, which is approximately only 3% of the totalpopulation and target for this year is 30%. 1 Several wildconspiracy theories sprouting throughout the community isfuelling the misleading narratives of vulnerable populationof Pakistan leading to increased Skeptism against covid-19vaccine .Of theses alleged claims of religious prohibitionsplea that virus was an illusion against Islam to empowerJews and through vaccine nano chips will be inoculated inpeople to gain control through 5G towers.2