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Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health, Dr. Zafar Mirza has said that the government will continue to work to make Pakistan free from Coronavirus.

Taking to Twitter, the special assistant wrote that Workd Health Organization (WHO) has characterized Coronavirus as a pandemic.

246/ The 🌍 can still change the course of this pandemic, by detecting, testing, treating, isolating, tracing, and mobilizing their people in the response. Countries needs to scale up the emergncy resp by communicating with the people about risks and how to protect the public.

— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) March 11, 2020

He added that the federal and provincial governments have been working actively for the past seven weeks to implement the broad cardinals of preparedness and response related to Coronavirus.

“247/ In Pakistan, the federal and provincial governments have been working in sync for the past 7 weeks to implement the broad cardinals of preparedness and response as DG @DrTedros has highlighted. We will inshAllah continue to work to keep Pakistanis Flag of Pakistan safe from #Coronavirus,” Zafar Mirza wrote.

247/ In Pakistan, the federal and provincial governments have been working in sync for the past 7 weeks to implement the broad cardinals of preparedness and response as DG @DrTedros has highlighted. We will inshAllah continue to work to keep Pakistanis 🇵🇰 safe from #coronavirus

— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) March 11, 2020

Yesterday, another person was tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus in Skardu, pushing the total number of the COVID-19 cases 20 in Pakistan.