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PESHAWAR Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan Thursday said without active cooperation of the masses the government efforts to contain deadly Coronavirus, could not yield results. CMN KP along with Federal Minister for Communication, Muraad Saeed paid a one day visit to Swat district to review the corona situation and the arrangements made by the district administration to contain the outbreak of the corona pandemic. During his trip the Chief Minister visited Saidu Hospital and inaugurated Molecular (PCR) Laboratory. The newly established lab will cater for the testing requirements of corona suspects at local level. To beginning with the laboratory has a capacity of 70 tests per day which will be increased to 100 per day within the next couple of days. Talking to media men on the occasion, Mahmood Khan said that besides important steps to affectively deal with the corona situation, the provincial government was working on increasing the testing capacity for the corona suspects across the province adding that public health laboratories was being established at all divisional headquarters of the province to cater for the increasing requirements of corona tests.
