Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt recruiting 2,000 doctors to tackle Coronavirus situation

PESHAWAR: Two thousand doctors are being recruited in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to tackle the emergent situation arising out of the coronavirus pandemic.

This was stated by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan while talking to media in Landi Kotal.

Earlier, the chief minister visited various isolation wards established for corona patients in district headquarters hospital Khyber and directed for further improvement of facilities.

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Sindh govt to purchase machines to enhance laboratories’ testing capacity

The Sindh government has decided to purchase necessary equipment and machines to enhance the laboratories’ testing capacity in the province.

The decision was taken at the meeting of Task Force on Coronavirus in Karachi, with Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in the chair.

The chief minister approved purchase of 290 ventilators, 3.2 million Personal Protective Equipment, 100 Rapid Kit Antigen Test Machines, 100,000 testing kits, 50 RT Lamp Testing Machines, 10,000 RT Lamp Kits and 29 portable X-ray machines.

The meeting was informed that so far 3718 corona tests had been conducted in the province, out of which 3304 were declared negative and 413 as positive while 485 results are pending.