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UK package to help Pakistan fight new variants - Newspaper

British High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner said that “sharing world class UK science expertise with Pakistan will help detect new Covid variants of concern and keep fighting this pandemic”. Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: The British government has announced a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan fight new variants of Covid-19. Under the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) programme, Pakistan will be able to draw on UK expertise and support to quickly detect new and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19, a British High Commission press release said. The United Kingdom is a world lea­der in genomic sequencing for Covid-19 variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants. Under an agreement re­­ached between the UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakis­tan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the British government will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase genomic s

Fighting new variants of Covid-19: UK announces new package for Pakistan

July 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has announced a new package of Genomic Sequencing Support to help Pakistan’s fight against new dangerous variants of COVID-19. Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on the UK expertise and support to detect new, and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19 quickly. According to the British High Commission, the UK is a world leader in Genomic Sequencing for COVID variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants. Through an agreement inked between the UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakistan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the UK will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase Genomic Sequencing capacity in Pakistan. The support will also include technical advice on bio-informatics workflow and technical processes.

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