Although no case of UK Covid-19 variant has been reported so far this year in Sindh, the World Health Organisation has recommended the provincial health system to increase its testing capacity and also develop the capacity to test Variants of Concern (VoC) including the B.1.1.7, which are being reported in other parts of the country.

A WHO delegation led by its country representative in Pakistan Dr Palitha Mahipala Gunarathna and Dr Sara Salman had on Friday attended the meeting of the provincial Covid-19 task force at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi to review the cocornavirus situation in the province.

The WHO representatives recommended that public health measures such as mask wearing, hand hygiene and social distancing should be strictly implemented in order to counter the third wave of the pandemic.

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