Pakistan will be receiving 2.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the US in the coming week, The Nation has reported.

“Thanks to the president’s commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, two million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will begin to ship to Peru from the United States, and 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine will ship to Pakistan,” read a press briefing statement by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

Earlier, this month several overseas Pakistanis protested outside the Mass Vaccination Centre at F-9 Park in Islamabad. The expats demanded that they should only be administered the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer, reported The Express Tribune.