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The Punjab government has denied the rumors on social media that elderly citizens could walk into Lahore’s Expo Center without… Read More

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The Punjab government has denied the rumors on social media that elderly citizens could walk into Lahore’s Expo Center without an appointment to get COVID-19 vaccine shots.

The officials responsible for the vaccination process urged people to register for the plan and wait to receive a PIN code via SMS before arriving at their assigned vaccination center.

Tens of hundreds of people turned to the Expo Center as a result of a viral message on social media, which read that people over 60 could walk in with an ID card to get vaccinated without waiting for an SMS code.

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The message made many people believe that their elderly family members could get the shots within 15 minutes upon arriving at the Expo Center amid the third wave of COVID-19 in the country.

When approached for a comment in this regard, Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Secretary, Capt (retd) Usman Younis, tweeted on Sunday that:

While it is true that we don’t return people and we also provide walk-in [inoculation service] if one spouse is scheduled and the other isn’t, we process people as per [the] schedule, and if everyone starts turning up on their own, it will delay the ones in line. Please wait for the message.

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Before him, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Focal Person on Digital Media, Dr. Arslan Khalid, termed the viral message “fake”.