{"id":64062,"date":"2020-04-15T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64062"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:14:39","slug":"who-donates-15-pcr-machines-test-kits-ndma-covid-19-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/who-donates-15-pcr-machines-test-kits-ndma-covid-19-screening.html","title":{"rendered":"WHO donates 15 PCR machines, test kits to NDMA for COVID-19 screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has received 15 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines and testing kits \u2013 with the capacity to conduct 15,000 tests \u2013 from the World Health Organisation (WHO), a news source reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-for-lockdown-extension-enforce-stricter-measures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sindh for lockdown extension, enforce stricter measures (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh for lockdown extension, enforce stricter measures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Monday distributed 3,500 N95 masks in public hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) donated 200,000 N95 masks to the PRCS along with 2,000 reusable isolation hoodies. Reportedly, these masks and hoodies will be distributed among hospitals throughout the country to protect the medical staff from the COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-coronavirus-emergency-relief-ordinance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sindh finalises draft on Coronavirus Emergency Relief Ordinance (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh finalises draft on Coronavirus Emergency Relief Ordinance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, Pakistan has received most of its medical supplies and equipment as donations from China. Alibaba, a private company, also donated 57,600 testing kits and 500,000 masks. The World Bank (WB) also allocated funds worth USD 200 million, in the first week of April, to assist Pakistan in combating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-cases-lahores-samanabad-dha-parts-cantt-other-areas-sealed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"COVID-19 breakout (opens in a new tab)\">COVID-19 breakout<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has received 15 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines and testing kits \u2013 with the capacity to conduct 15,000 tests \u2013 from the World Health Organisation (WHO), a news source reported. Read: Sindh for lockdown extension, enforce stricter measures Additionally, the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Monday distributed 3,500 N95 masks in public hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) donated 200,000 N95 masks to the PRCS along with 2,000 reusable isolation hoodies. Reportedly, these masks and hoodies will be distributed among hospitals throughout the country to protect the medical staff from the COVID-19 infection. Read: Sindh finalises draft on Coronavirus Emergency Relief Ordinance As per the publication, Pakistan has received most of its medical supplies and equipment as donations from China. Alibaba, a private company, also donated 57,600 testing kits and 500,000 masks. The World Bank (WB) also allocated funds worth USD 200 million, in the first week of April, to assist Pakistan in combating the COVID-19 breakout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":63210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26203,26204,26202,26201],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-pakistan-red-crescent-society-prcs","8":"tag-red-cross-society-of-china-rcsc","9":"tag-test-kits-to-ndma-for-covid-19-screening","10":"tag-who-donates-15-pcr-machines"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WHO 15 PCR machines, test kits NDMA COVID-19 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has received 15 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines and testing kits\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/who-donates-15-pcr-machines-test-kits-ndma-covid-19-screening.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHO 15 PCR machines, test kits NDMA COVID-19 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has received 15 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines and testing kits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/who-donates-15-pcr-machines-test-kits-ndma-covid-19-screening.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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