July 9, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has announced a new package of Genomic Sequencing Support to help Pakistan’s fight against new dangerous variants of COVID-19. Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) program, Pakistan will be able to draw on the UK expertise and support to detect new, and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19 quickly.
According to the British High Commission, the UK is a world leader in Genomic Sequencing for COVID variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants.
Through an agreement inked between the UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakistan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the UK will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase Genomic Sequencing capacity in Pakistan. The support will also include technical advice on bio-informatics workflow and technical processes.
UK offers package to fight against new variants of corona
July 8, 2021
Islamabad : The UK government today announced a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan’s fight against new variants of COVID-19. Through the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) programme Pakistan will be able to draw on UK expertise and support to detect quickly new, and potentially more dangerous, variants of COVID-19.
The UK is a world leader in genomic sequencing for COVID variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants. Through an agreement reached between UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakistan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the UK will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase genomic sequencing capacity in Pakistan. The support will also include technical advice on bio-informatics workflow and technical processes.
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