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UK offers package to fight against new variants of corona

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.

UK govt doesn t know when Pakistan will come off Red List

UK govt doesn’t know when Pakistan will come off Red List July 8, 2021 LONDON: The UK government has told Pakistan that it has no idea at this stage when Pakistan will be taken off the travel Red List as the UK continues to work on its own programme to open up the country on 19th July to normal situation pre-Covid. The News understands from sources in both the UK and Pakistan governments that the matter of Pakistan’s Red List travel ban was discussed when Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks with Lord Tariq Ahmed of Wimbledon, Minister for South Asia, who visited Pakistan last week.

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