NCOC develops national immunization system

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), and National Information Technology Board (NITB) has developed a National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) to ensure efficient supply chain management and administration of the Covid-19 vaccine.

However, the system will enable automated phase-wise registration of citizens for the Covid-19 vaccine through SMS/internet, based on CNIC numbers. The immunization mechanism will intimate to citizens shortly. NIMS will make it available by mid-January.

NCOC was informed that the federal government is in close liaison with the world’s leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers for its early availability in Pakistan.

NCOC Statistics

The center informed that Pakistan’s current positivity ratio stands at 5.92 percent. The highest positivity ratio observed in Karachi at 13.84 percent, followed by Hyderabad at 8.79 percent and Swat at 7.89 percent.

The ratio in various federating units found to be 8.40 percent in Sindh, 5.87 percent in K-P, 4.95 percent in Balochistan, 4.44 percent in Punjab, 3.98 percent in Islamabad, 2.14 percent in AJK, and 0.62 percent in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B).

Moreover, in the last 24 hours, Punjab recorded the highest number of deaths, followed by Sindh.

The highest number of ventilator occupancy seen in Multan at 44 percent; followed by Islamabad at 41 percent, Lahore at 32 percent, and Peshawar at 30 percent.

Meanwhile, the highest number of oxygenated bed occupancy in the country in Peshawar; at 63 percent, followed by Multan 39 percent, Islamabad 35 percent, and Rawalpindi 30 percent.

Furthermore, the NCOC reported that of the 2.1 percent fatality rate in the country. However, 70 percent of males and 77.5 percent of people over the age of 50 succumbed to the virus; 73 percent had chronic comorbidities and 91 percent of the deceased remained hospitalized.