{"id":72196,"date":"2021-05-17T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=72196"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:02:21","slug":"shoaib-akhtar-takes-covid-19-vaccine-urges-people-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=72196","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib Akhtar takes COVID-19 vaccine, urges people to do so"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Akhtar.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s former speedster Shoaib Akhtar has received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the cricketer himself shared on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Akhtar shared a video of him taking the first dose of vaccine against the virus and urged people to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got the first dose of my Covid vaccine today. Please get yourself vaccinated today. It&#8217;s open for all people above the age of 30. More vaccination, safer we all are,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got the first dose of my Covid vaccine today. Please get yourself vaccinated today. Its open for all people above the age of 30. <br \/>More vaccination, more safe we all are! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VaccinateOurWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VaccinateOurWorld<\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RawalpindiExpress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RawalpindiExpress<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8zsuskmiOi\">pic.twitter.com\/8zsuskmiOi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shoaib100mph\/status\/1394233917637595140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It must be noted here that the Pakistani government is offering free vaccination to its citizens in different phases.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/abu-dhabi-likely-to-host-psl-6-remaining-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abu Dhabi likely to host PSL 6 remaining matches<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s former speedster Shoaib Akhtar has received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the cricketer himself shared on social media. Taking to Twitter, Akhtar <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=72196\" title=\"Shoaib Akhtar takes COVID-19 vaccine, urges people to do so\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72198,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196\/revisions\/72198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}