PAKISTAN – The Pakistani province of Punjab threatens those who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid to cut their phone. In the province of Sind, however, state officials who do not allow themselves to be given the injection will not receive their July salary. In a country where only a tiny part of the population has been vaccinated, the third wave of the virus is just beginning to claim fewer victims than in the past. Out of a population of around 220 million people, only 10 million have so far been immunized, mainly thanks to vaccines provided by China.
In Punjab, which is the most populous province in Pakistan, the demand to be vaccinated is constantly decreasing. Therefore the health authorities have decided to act. And the local telecom said it was ready to collaborate in this kind of virtuous blackmail. Many do not get vaccinated out of ignorance or superstitions that those who get vaccinated become impotent or will be doomed to die within two years.
Another weapon to push Pakistanis to get vaccinated is to give them an entrance to the cinema, or to a party in a place of worship, as soon as security measures are abolished. In Pakistan there are currently 21,000 deaths from Covid, but according to experts it is an underestimate given the lack of diagnostic tests.
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