in testing. on 29 may, it was announced that 900 children under the age of 10 had tested positive in sindh. most cases were asymptomatic. covid-19 equipment june 2020 in early june, after testing began to pick up once again, case numbers began rising far faster, after levels of new cases in 24 hours breaking 3,000 on 31 may 3 june was the first day in which more than 4,000 people tested positive for covid-19. the ratio of positive cases to tests also increased, hovering around 20 – 25% in the first few days of june. on 1 june 2020, it was reported that punjab's chief minister, usman buzdar, had been told in a summary that there were an estimated 670,000 cases of covid-19, most of them asymptomatic, in lahore and that covid-19 had reached every single area of lahore. on 13 june 2020, veteran pakistani cricketer and former captain of pakistan national cricket team shahid afridi confirmed that he has been tested positive for covid-19 through his official twitter account after experiencing severe body pain since 11 june 2020. he was actively involved in social service helping people across balochistan in the remote areas during the lockdown imposed in the country prior to contracting with the coronavirus. on 17 june 2020, shaheed sikandarabad district, sherani district, and barkhan district, all in balochistan, all recorded their first case of covid-19. this meant that every single district in the four provinces of pakistan had at least one confirmed case of covid-19. december 2020 on 31 december 2020, minister for science and technology fawad chaudhry said that pakistan will purchase 1.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from sinopharm. january 2021 on 7 january 2021, parliamentary secretary for ministry of national health services dr nausheen hamid said that pakistan is expected to get the first covid-19 vaccine shipment by the end of the month. on 9 january 2021, islamabad got its first coronavirus vaccination centre after the government established the facility in tarlai area of the federal capital. on 10 january 2021, the government's national command and operation center (ncoc) opened registrations for frontline healthcare workers, who will receive the first doses of the covid-19 vaccine. staff in both public and private health facilities will be vaccinated, ncoc announced on its website. on 16 january 2021, astrazeneca's covid-19 vaccine was approved for emergency use in pakistan as the chinese vaccine was awaiting approval from the drug regulatory authority of pakistan (drap). faisal sultan added that pakistan had adequate cold chain facilities for most kinds of vaccines. on 18 january 2021, the drug regulatory authority of pakistan (drap) approved the sinopharm bibp vaccine for emergency use. on 21 january 2021, pakistan's foreign minister shah mehmood qureshi said that china agreed to provide half a million doses of the chinese sinopharm vaccine free of cost to pakistan by 31 january. on 31 january 2021, it was announced that 17 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine would be provided to pakistan by covax. february 2021 on 1 february 2021, pakistan received the first vaccine doses from china. on 12 february 2021, pakistan approved the emergency use of the convidecia vaccine developed by cansino biologics. on 24 february 2021, pakistan announced all coronavirus restrictions would be lifted from 15 march. march 2021 by 5 march 2021, 197,000 vaccine doses had been administered in pakistan. on 6 march, nadhim zahawi announced that pakistan will get 17 million covid-19 vaccine doses from the united kingdom. on 16 march, pakistan received 500,000 doses of the sinopharm vaccine as a donation from china. may 2021 on 28 may, pakistan received 106,000 doses of pfizer–biontech covid-19 vaccine through the covax initiative. pfizer officials confirmed that 1 million more doses could be delivered to islamabad in july or august, subject to the bilateral agreement being negotiated at the time. june 2021 on 28 june, the u.s. confirmed it would be sending 2.5 million doses of the moderna covid-19 vaccine to pakistan, and that they were expected to arrive in 1 week. april 2022 on, april 1, 2022, minister for planning, development and special initiatives asad umar announced closure of the national command and operation center (ncoc) operations, partly because of all-time low covid-19 indicators and partly because of high level of vaccination. raiwind hotspot