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UN Secretary General issues New Year message in Urdu for first time

31 December, 2020 09:51

UN Secretary General issues New Year message in Urdu for first time.

For the first time, United Nations secretary general issued message in Urdu along with other six official languages of the world body.

UN Secretary General issues New Year message in Urdu

In his message, the UNSG Antonio Guterres said distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world will remain a monumental task of the year.

Furthermore, he said if we distribute vaccines according to need and not wealth, 2021 will could see us start to emerge from the pandemic.

Meanwhile, Pakistan reported 58 more deaths due to Coronavirus during the last 24 hours.

According to the latest data from the National Command and Operation Center, 2,475 people tested Covid positive.

This figure came during this period after tests of 39,695 people.

Moreover, the figure of active Covid cases in the country now stood at 34,537.

Besides, the NCOC reported recover of 435,073 people from the virus so far.

Meanwhile, Cabinet Committee authorized purchase of over 1m Covid19 vaccines from China.

In a tweet, Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar shared the news of procurement of more than one million vaccines to combat Coronavirus.

Meanwhile, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said that the government has decided to purchase vaccines from China.

He further said that the government decided to buy one point two million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China initially.

In a tweet, he said that the govt would purchase vaccine doses from Sinopharm company.

Moreover, the government would provided free of cost vaccines to frontline workers in the first quarter of New Year.

The Minister said the government would allow if private sector company wants to import any other internationally approved.

Meanwhile, China has approved its first COVID-19 vaccine for general public use.

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