What happened: The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) Chief Asad Umar said on Friday that the Federal government will be setting up large vaccination centres in the Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir regions. According to Umar, this is an imperative step to speed up the vaccination process with the upcoming elections and tourism season.
The bigger picture: The NCOC chief urged people to actively participate in the countries Covid-19 vaccine drive because ‘the quicker the people get vaccinated, the quicker the restrictions will ease.”However, there is still some mismanagement and an information block in administering the Covid-19 vaccine in the FATA orthern areas.
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