What happened: “The unavailability of the vaccine is another proof of the government’s criminal negligence and incompetence,” the PML-N president, Shehbaz Sharif, said in a statement after Pakistan received another shipment of over 1.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China. Backstory: Mr Sharif purported that the “opportunists in this corrupt government” who had already seized illegal profit in sugar and flour crises a now heading to seize vaccines as well to make money at the cost of lives. He said that the government delayed the supply of vaccines despite constant warnings from the opposition and it resulted in massive loss of human lives.
Faisal Karim Kundi, PPP’s information secretary, also criticized the government’s handling of the Pandemic and COVID funds in a video. He probed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to take notice of alleged corruption of over 12 billion rupees in the coronavirus funds. “The people all over the country are not getting vaccines due to the incompetence of this illegitimate and selected government,” He stated. Aftermath: Both parties called for a third-party audit of the coronavirus funds accounts so that the truth could be brought before the nation. Click here for more from ProperGaanda.