Pakistan vaccinates male cricketers, assist workers in first part

Pakistan’s nationwide workforce gamers and assist workers have gotten their first jabs of vaccination towards COVID-19, nation’s Cricket Board mentioned on Friday.
The inoculation drive was performed in collaboration with Pakistan authorities’s National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the PCB mentioned.
In the primary part, 57 males gamers, 13 officers of the lads’s workforce and 13 NHPC women and men coaches have been vaccinated.
A lot of franchise gamers and assist workers apart from PCB match officers concerned within the February-March part of the Pakistan Super League (three match referees, three umpires) have been additionally vaccinated.
The vaccination drive began on March 4 in Karachi and carried on for greater than two months, earlier than its conclusion on May 6 when eight gamers � a part of Pakistan’s squad for the continued Test collection towards Zimbabwe � got second doses in Harare.
“… we requested the NCOC for vaccines during the HBL Pakistan Super League 6. The vaccination drive started in Karachi and our first priority was to get the players and support staff involved in the tournament vaccinated,” PCB Chief Operating Officer Salman Naseer mentioned in a press release.
“After the initial round of vaccination in Karachi, we focused on getting the remaining members of the men’s squad, who were not involved in the PSL 6, vaccinated before the tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe.”

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In the subsequent part, remaining home males cricketers, nationwide girls cricketers, age-group cricketers and assist workers of the home, nationwide girls and age-group groups shall be vaccinated.
“The PCB is fully behind the government’s vaccination drive and once again urges people across Pakistan to get vaccinated in order to ensure the health and safety of their own selves and their families,” Naseer mentioned.
“Our players � both men and women � and PCB management will continue to provide full support and backing to the NCOC vaccine awareness initiatives as they have done repeatedly since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.”