Pakistan to allow private firms to import coronavirus vaccines

Vaccines also exempt from price caps in divisive move that health experts fear will deepen inequality

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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.

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.