Pakistan to receive updated Pfizer’s Covid vaccines from US as infections spread

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is set to receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine shots this month as infections related to the contagious virus increased rapidly.

The South Asian nation of 240 million saw massive surge in Covid, and pneumonia cases in provincial capital Lahore as emergency wards and outpatient departments (OPDs) at hospitals were crowded with patients. Old age…