Karachi: The Government of Sindh said it has vaccinated on August 1 a total of 211,911 citizens against the novel coronavirus as it races to curtail the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
In a tweet on Monday, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab said that the number of vaccination has sharply increased over the last few days. He also shared a breakdown of the doses administered across the province during the last 24 hours.
As per the data, Karachi, the worst-hit city by the novel virus, administered 94,388 doses during the last 24 hours, taking the total number to 3,600,110. In Sindh, 6,655,271 doses have been administered so far.
Fear of the spread of the Delta variant as well as multiple warnings by the government have prompted the people to rush to vaccination centres in the port city, causing a stampede-like situation at Karachi’s Expo Centre on the weekend.
In order to prevent overcrowding at the Expo Centre and Khaliqdina Hall, the provincial government decided on Sunday to make 10 vaccination centres in the port city operational for 24 hours starting Monday.