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British High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner said that “sharing world class UK science expertise with Pakistan will help detect new Covid variants of concern and keep fighting this pandemic”. Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: The British government has announced a new package of genomic sequencing support to help Pakistan fight new variants of Covid-19. Under the New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) programme, Pakistan will be able to draw on UK expertise and support to quickly detect new and potentially more dangerous variants of Covid-19, a British High Commission press release said. The United Kingdom is a world lea­der in genomic sequencing for Covid-19 variants and the second largest contributor to the international database for the variants. Under an agreement re­­ached between the UK’s Public Health England (PHE) and Pakis­tan’s National Institute for Health (NIH), the British government will share its expertise and provide reagents to increase genomic s

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