The US on Friday announced that it will provide Pakistan $1million under the USAID programme to help improve monitoring and rapid responseagainst the novel coronavirus outbreak in the South Asian country.
Senior US diplomat Alice Wells made the announcement onTwitter, reports The Express Tribune.
“The US-Pakistan government partnership is helpingfight COVID-19. The US government is responding to Covid-19 in Pakistan withinitial $1 million funding to bolster monitoring and rapid response.”
The US diplomat further stated that there were over ahundred Pakistani graduates in the lab training of Centres for Disease Control(CDC) and Prevention, investigating coronavirus cases in Punjab andGilgit-Baltistan.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pakistan haveincreased to 454 after Balochistan, Punjab, Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan andKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa announced an increase in their provincial tallies.
Pakistan has also reported two deaths, both in KhyberPakhtunkhwa.