{"id":28503,"date":"2021-02-15T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/15\/pakistan-allow-private-firms-import-coronavirus-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:50:04","slug":"pakistan-to-allow-private-firms-to-import-coronavirus-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28503","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to allow private firms to import coronavirus vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines also exempt from price caps in divisive move that health experts fear will deepen inequality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan will allow private companies to import coronavirus vaccines and has exempted the vaccines from price caps in a divisive move that health experts fear will create vast inequalities in access.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been scrambling to secure vaccine supplies but so far only the Chinese-made Sinopharm treatment is being deployed. This month 500,000 doses were donated to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/15\/pakistan-allow-private-firms-import-coronavirus-vaccines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines also exempt from price caps in divisive move that health experts fear will deepen inequalityCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePakistan will allow private companies to import coronavirus vaccines and has exempted the v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,346,60,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-health","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28503\/revisions\/28505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}