Pakistan got additional 100,000 Covid-19 testing kits and a sample releaser buffer from Chinese enterprises, as the country’s disease trend in the single-day tally of new cases and fatality rate decreased over the previous 24 hours.
At a ceremony at the Pakistan embassy in Beijing on Friday, the COVID kits were presented to Pakistani Ambassador Moinul Haque. The ceremony was held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the two nations’ establishing of diplomatic ties.
Chairman of the China-Pakistan Friendship Association Sha Zukang, Vice President of the Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) Li Xikui, Secretary-General of the China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development Wang Longshe, Wuhan EasyDiagnosis Biomedicine Co-Deputy General Manager Wang Rui, and others attended the ceremony.
Ambassador Haque thanked Chinese companies for the generous gift and thanked the Chinese people and government for their help in Pakistan’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. He went on to say that during the crisis, Pakistan and China stood together and provided each other their full support.
In his speech, Li Xikui said that CPAFFC would continue to meet Pakistan’s critical needs in the future as well. Ambassador Sha Zukang said that anti-pandemic cooperation between Pakistan and China had been beneficial to both countries.
In Islamabad, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) – the nerve center of the country’s fight against the pandemic – said that the national Covid positivity ratio during the past 24 hours came down to 1.01% from 1.3% recorded the other day.
