Iffat Omar faces storm of criticism on social media after allegedly jumping que to urge vaccinated
Actress Iffat Omar has been severely criticised on Twitter after pictures and videos during which she will be seen getting vaccinated for coronavirus went viral on social media.
Social media accused the actress of jumping the queue to urge vaccinated when more deserving citizens still need to wait.
For now, only persons aged 60 years and above can get the free vaccine under the govt drive, while those aged 50 can thus far only register for an attempt . there's no commercially available vaccine against the coronavirus in Pakistan yet.
The actress are often seen during this video, getting vaccinated alongside Federal Minister for Housing and Works Tariq Bashir Cheema and what appears to be a couple of of his relatives, at the minister's residence.
Cheema denied accusations that he had been vaccinated against the virus from the government's stock, consistent with a report travel by Geo News.
He claimed that a team from the University of Health Sciences (UHS) had received his residence to administer a 'booster shot' of a 'trial vaccine'.
The minister said an equivalent team had earlier administered the primary dose of the trial vaccine to his family at their residence.
Iffat Omar tweeted an equivalent Geo TV report, telling people to "take it easy".
"Looks like @OmarIffat is additionally a beneficiary of an equivalent hierarchy she likes to rail against. i'm wondering how all those under 60 during this video feel about jumping the queue,& snatching turns from those that need em the most?" he tweeted.
VIPs getting COVID vaccines: PML-N’s Zubair distances himself from scandal
A month earlier, an identical incident happened when the daughter and son-in-law of former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair were seemingly vaccinated during a flagrant violation of rules, triggering a political blame game between the Centre and therefore the provincial government.
According to details, the couple were administered the vaccine on Feb 6, at the Adult Vaccination Center of the Ojha campus of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) by a deputy district officer of the District East.
It wasn't clear under what authority or compulsion the doctor had decided to administer the vaccine to individuals who don't qualify as either the elderly or as frontline healthcare workers.
While responding to the controversy, senior PML-N leader Muhammad Zubair had said he had not requested anyone to administer the vaccine to his family which they (his daughter and son-in-law) got themselves vaccinated through their friends’ connection.
“I don't have anything to try to to with this nor did I ask anyone for the favour,” Zubair had said.
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