Islamabad
Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt Gen Muhammad Afzal has said that Pakistan would soon attain the capacity to conduct 40,000 tests for the coronavirus per day.
This was stated by him while talking to the media after receiving an consignment of 18 tonnes medical equipment from China arrived here through a special PIA flight here on Monday. Muhammad Afzal said the country’s laboratories would be able to conduct upto 40,000 COVID-19 tests daily in the next few days.
He said that the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) had collaborated with the NDMA in procuring the medical equipment valuing $50 million from China. Today’s consignment included 15 x-Ray machines, 159 ventilators, 200 thermal guns, 290,000 surgical masks, 15,000 protective gowns, 30,000 gloves 5,000 safety goggles and other personal protective equipment (PPE).
Three to four more flights carrying mostly PPE and ventilators would arrive soon, he added.–INP
