President Dr Arif Alvi has thanked the Chinese medical team for visiting Pakistan when it was relentlessly engaged in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The appreciation came during a meeting with the eight-member team of Chinese doctors and medical experts. The team was led by Dr Ma Minghui, an expert in infectious diseases.
The president particularly thanked the Chinese government for dispatching the team to Pakistan at such a critical and momentous time. Dr Alvi underscored that the COVID-19 has become a threat to the global health system and massive efforts were required to deal with the dangers posed by the virus.
It was reiterated by the president that both Pakistan and China needed to deepen their cooperation in battling infectious diseases.
He underlined that there should be more exchanges between medical and health professionals of both countries to chalk out strategies to effectively contain the spread of such epidemics in the future.
He particularly noted that Chinese leadership had undertaken massive and incredible efforts to control the epidemic and expressed delight that the lockdown from Wuhan city had now been lifted.
