A paramedic wearing protective gear takes a nose-swab sample to be tested for the coronavirus in Karachi. Reuters/File
KARACHI: Although no case of UK Covid-19 variant has been reported so far this year in Sindh, which is conducting highest number of tests, the World Health Organisation has recommended the provincial health system to increase its testing capacity and also develop the capacity to test Variants of Concern (VoC) including the B.1.1.7, which are being reported in other parts of the country.
A WHO delegation led by its country representative in Pakistan Dr Palitha Mahipala Gunarathna and Dr Sara Salman had on Friday attended the meeting of the provincial Covid-19 task force at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi to review the cocornavirus situation in the province.
Karachi
April 4, 2021
The World Health Organisation (WHO) mission in Pakistan has recommended the Sindh government to “to increase its testing capacity” for Covid-19 and also develop its capacity to test variant of concern (VoC), including the B.1.1.7 (the so-called UK variant) whose cases are being reported in Pakistan these days.
A WHO delegation led by its country representative in Pakistan, Dr Palitha Mahipala Gunarathna and Dr Sara Salman, who attended the provincial Covid-19 Task meeting at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi on Friday, to review the coronavirus situation in the province, further recommended that public health measures, such as mask-wearing, hand hygiene and social distancing, should be implemented in order to counter the third wave of Covid-19.