The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has approved Pakistan's first COVID-19 test kit. This means that Pakistan will now have its own cost-effective COVID-19 testing device for the rapid screening of patients.
Administrative Minister for Science and Technology, Government of
Pakistan. Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, on his official Twitter account, @Fawad
Chaudhry said, 'Another historic landmark obtained by DRP, Pakistan has already approved the COVID testing kit, congratulations to Offial_NUST and you are proud of our brilliant scientists. This will significantly reduce the cost and savings of COVID-19 tests. Heavy import bill.'
Another landmark achieved.... DRAP has approved Pakistan first COVID testing kit, Congratulations to @Official_NUST and our brilliant scientists ...you people have made us proud ... this ll bring significant cost reduction of COVID tests also ll save huge import bill
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) June 12, 2020
'The MoU was signed between Science and Tech and Man of National Health
BTW, which has awarded the Pak Engineers Council (PEC) the patron design and
local development EM assigned devices to compete with COID-19 and PEC.
Assist in getting equipment approval from DRP. ' He said in a previous
tweet.
Pakistan reported the first incident of COVID-19 on February 26 and now the number has risen to 125,933 by June 12. The worst affected province is
Punjab with 47,382 due to epidemic diseases, followed by Sindh with
46,828.
90 progressively compact ventilators were given to all territories by The
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Azad Jammu and Kashmir
(AJK), Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), as per media reports.
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