LAHORE:First Secretary Development Australian High Commission Ms Danielle Cashen gave away state-of-the-art Gene Sequencing Machine and Real Time PCR machine to Punjab to strengthen the testing.
July 16, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Australian High Commission has launched an initiative with the National Institute of Health (NIH) to help double the Covid-19 testing capacity across Islamabad and the four provincial capitals of Pakistan.
The Australian grant will be administered by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF). Australia’s assistance aims to enhance genomic sequencing capacity for the early detection of new variants. This includes training 500 healthcare workers to use new lab equipment safely and effectively.
To support the Pakistan Preparedness and Response Plan for Covid-19 Pandemic and protect the vulnerable, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and NDRMF are fast tracking the project’s implementation.
$1.1b Covid response plan
With the $200 million worth of new loan, the country will be able to cover another 13.5 million
A man wearing a protective mask walks through a crowd of people along a makeshift market as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan January 17, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS/File
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on Monday approved $200 million loan as part of its overall plan to immunise nearly 70 million people against the deadly Covid-19 contagion during current year.
The government has planned to procure 146.2 million doses to provide shots to 69.6 million “eligible people” or 70 per cent of the population that can be vaccinated, according to the Ministry of National Health Services.
CDWP clears one uplift project, recommends another to ECNEC
National
March 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Monday cleared one development project with a cumulative estimated cost of Rs0.634 billion and recommended one project worth Rs20.53 bn to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for further consideration. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan. Secretary Planning Hamed Yaqoob Sheikh, senior officials from the Planning Commission and federal ministries/divisions also participated in the meeting while representatives from provincial governments participated through the video conference. Projects related to health and water resources were presented in the meeting.