The Sindh government on Thursday said it has established a Covid-19 laboratory at Karachi University’s International Centre for Chemical and Biological Research, which has been dubbed as ‘Pakistan’s biggest testing laboratory’, with a capacity to conduct 800 tests on a daily basis.
“Sindh has set up Pakistan’s largest laboratory at Karachi University,” Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said, adding that the facility will expand in the coming three weeks where about 2,400 tests would be carried out daily.
While announcing the development on Twitter, Senator Murtaza Wahab said that the health facility would be functional from Thursday. “Sindh govt has established a COVID-19 laboratory at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Research, Karachi University. It has become functional from today with a capacity of 800 tests a day,” read the tweet. On a separate note, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 36 out of 176 passengers on a flight from Muscat tested positive for coronavirus.
Further more, out of 512 passengers, who travelled to Pakistan in two separate flights from Angola and Dubai, 22 tested positive for coronavirus. Moreover, Pakistan has reported 224 deaths from novel coronavirus while the total number of cases has surged to 10,513.
4590 patients have been tested positive for the epidemic in Punjab, 3373 in Sindh, 1453 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 552 in Balochistan, 290 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 204 in Islamabad and 51 in Azad Kashmir. So far, 2337 patients have recovered in the country.
