islamabad pakistan has announced to ban train travel for unvaccinated people starting from october as part of the governments efforts to counter the reluctance shown by citizens to get themselves vaccinated against covid19 the decision was taken at a meeting of the national command and operation centre ncoc after the top anticoronavirus body expressed concern over the spread of the virus an official privy to the details of the ncoc meeting said that it was decided that those not willing to get vaccinated will not be allowed to travel on trains from october 1 domestic air travel has already been banned from this month while teachers students and public servants have been asked to get vaccinated by the end of august pakistan launched its vaccination in february and so far more than 37 million people have got at least one dose only seven million people have received two jabs which is far short of those who got at least one dose pakistan had announced to vaccinate at least 70 million people by the end of this year the new measure was announced as 3884 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours taking the national tally to 1075504 while 86 people died in this period and the number of covid19 death toll reached 24004 according to the ministry of national health services it said that the positivity rate was 785 per cent meanwhile the us has handed over one million covid19 antigen rapid diagnostic test rdt kits to pakistan according to a statement by the us embassy these rdts will serve pakistans needs of quick surveillance and diagnosis and restrict the spread of covid19 to its lowest levels usaid mission director julie koenen said the embassy said that the us government has allocated more than usd 40 million to pakistan for covid19 response assistance including a donation of 200 ventilators personal protective equipment and pulse oximeters pakistan has also received 55 million doses of moderna vaccine under covax facility