Prime minister’s aide on National Health Services, Dr Zafar Mirza, said on Sunday Pakistan is now capable of diagnosing the mysterious infection following the arrival of at least 1,000 testing kits from China.
In a string of tweets, Dr Mirza appreciated the National Institute of Health (NIH) team “for their hard work in securing the reagent for diagnosing” the virus, which caused declaration of a worldwide health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan 31 after its spread to more than two dozen countries.
Believed to have originated in a wet market of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the plague has claimed 304 lives, all but one in China, and infected thousands of people globally.
The PM’s aide said as many as 199 health information booths have been set up at various airports to provide answers to queries about the disease. “Health information booths have been set up at airports to provide answers to queries about coronavirus and disseminate important standardized information materials.”
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