Staff Reporter
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ali Shah Vice Chancellor Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad (QAU) and Chairman Vice Chancellors Committee Pakistan said that Pakistani universities would work side by side with the government in prevention of COVID-19 through creating awareness, providing necessary support material and engaging students through alternative means of teaching and assessment.
He was talking to the delegation of Inter University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences Pakistan (IUCPSS) and GNP which was headed by National Coordinator IUCPSS Murtaza Noor. Having ecprrtise in Biotechnology, he clearly spoken about this pandemic. He emphasized on social distancing in this critical situation as the transmission rate of this virus from person to person is much faster than any of the virus before.
He insisted over change of life styles by avoiding handshakes using sanitizers, adopting healthy habits and other precautionary measures prescribed by the virologists for the time unless this issue is resolved. Coming to the targets, he said that Universities are playing their best role for coping with this problem, he pointed the work of University of Punjab and NUST regarding preparation of diagnostic kits and appreciated their initiatives.
He also told that he asked the faculty of QAU to prepare sanitizers of good quality with less prices comparatively to the market and distribute them in QAU employees and then countrywide.
