Karachi
April 4, 2021
The World Health Organisation (WHO) mission in Pakistan has recommended the Sindh government to “to increase its testing capacity” for Covid-19 and also develop its capacity to test variant of concern (VoC), including the B.1.1.7 (the so-called UK variant) whose cases are being reported in Pakistan these days.
A WHO delegation led by its country representative in Pakistan, Dr Palitha Mahipala Gunarathna and Dr Sara Salman, who attended the provincial Covid-19 Task meeting at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi on Friday, to review the coronavirus situation in the province, further recommended that public health measures, such as mask-wearing, hand hygiene and social distancing, should be implemented in order to counter the third wave of Covid-19.