Islamabad: April 10, 2021 (TNS): Former interior minister Rehman Malik has urged the Government to provide free COVID vaccine to each citizen of the country. He has appealed the people to strictly follow SOPs, wear mask, avoid gathering and maintain social distance. He said that only by following SOPs and expediting the process of vaccination, we can combat the third wave of deadly pandemic. He said the virus would stop spreading once maximum people are vaccinated across the country. He demanded that the government should provide COVID-19 vaccination free of cost to every citizen of Pakistan. He said that the entire expenditure on the vaccine should be borne by the government as majority of our population can’t bear to vaccinate the whole family on their own. He stressed that we can only stop the spread of virus if the government works as to how make it possible to vaccinate the maximum people as soon as possible. He said that other than senior citizens, only those are getting vaccines privately who can afford its cost.
Rehman Malik said the third wave of coronavirus had spread not only in Pakistan but all over the world and unfortunately the increase in positive cases of coronavirus was due to carelessness as SOPs and precautionary measures to control its rapid spread were not followed strictly.
He said: “I had earlier predicted that the third wave of coronavirus could be more fatal than earlier two waves”.
