![]() ![]() "People who are less literate, less aware about the COVID-19 vaccine." Sohail Raza Shaikh, the government's point person for COVID-19. "The objective of the door-to-door campaign was basically to focus on these people," says Dr. This dramatic intervention by the Sindh government aims to vaccinate a cohort they have struggled to reach: some 25% of residents who have not had their first dose, despite vaccines being widely available for the past year through supplies provided by the U.N.-backed COVAX program, the U.S. The women were about to go door-to-door to offer COVID-19 jabs on a recent February day – part of some 13,000 teams led by women that were dispatched across the southern province of Sindh to vaccinate some 12 million people over the age of 12. Kishwar Tanwir, who oversees vaccinations in the Pehlwan Goth district of the Pakistani city of Karachi. KARACHI, Pakistan – A doctor gives a pep talk to some two dozen women sitting in a hall of a medical center.
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