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Corona vaccination centre being set up at NPC: Fawad

By APP
May 24, 2021

Islamabad : Acknowledging the journalist community’s role as front-line workers during the coronavirus pandemic, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Sunday announced setting up a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre here at the National Press Club (NPC) to facilitate the media persons.

He, in a tweet, said Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar had issued administrative orders for the establishment of a vaccination centre at the Islamabad Press Club, at the request of the Information Ministry.

Journalists are the front-line workers in this crisis,” the minister said, adding that such measures were necessary for taking care of media persons health. Fawad said such a facility would also be provided for the lawyers community soon.