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ISLAMABAD: The Health Ministry has confirmed that Pakistan has so far not reported any case of a new “Indian strain”, a double-mutant variant, of the coronavirus that has caused massive devastation with a drastic increase in coronavirus infections.
Talking to journalists, Syed Sajid Shah, a spokesman for health ministry, said the country was still “safe” from the Indian variant. “Cases of the UK variant of the virus, however, are being reported,” he added.
To prevent the spread of the Indian COVID-19 variant in Pakistan, the NCOC had last week placed India in the category C list, banning entry of passengers from the country through air and land routes for two weeks.
India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday as countries, including Britain, Germany, and the United States, pledged to send urgent medical aid to fight the crisis overwhelming its hospitals.
Infections in the past 24 hours rose to 352,991, with overcrowded hospitals in Delhi and elsewhere turning away patients after running out of supplies of medical oxygen and beds.
A day earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the city’s lockdown will be extended for another week. He said the current oxygen demand was 700 tonnes, but they were only receiving 330 to 335 tonnes per day.
