WHO lists Pakistan among 7 countries the World can learn from
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Pakistan among seven countries that it says the world can learn from to fight future pandemics.
Pakistan has successfully flattened the coronavirus curve despite its dilapidated health infrastructure while the deadly contagion is spreading uncontrollably in many developed countries of the world.
Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has sickened 27.5 million people on the entire planet earth – except for Antarctica – and killed over 900,000 people since its outbreak in December, last year.
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while speaking at the media briefing, highlighted seven countries link, amongst many, whose preparation and response offer lessons for the rest of the world in how to deal with a global pandemic. These countries include Pakistan, Italy, Thailand, Mongolia, Mauritius and Uruguay.
“Pakistan has used the infrastructure it developed in its fight against polio to tackle Covid-19,” said the director general. “Community health workers, previously used to vaccinate children for polio, have been redeployed for contact tracing and monitoring.”
