COVID-19: Pakistan army sets up testing labs at all its major hospitals

ISLAMABAD: The media wing of the Pakistan army said on Tuesday that coronavirus testing labs had been established at major military hospitals across the country, with a central facility set up in Rawalpindi.
Health officials have said 195 people have tested positive in Pakistan so far.
Pakistan Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, has directed all military commanders to take necessary steps to assist the country’s civil administration in tackling the coronavirus pandemic, the military's media wing said in a statement.
“As part of the national effort and in line with the decisions of the National Security Committee taken on 13 March, all medical facilities of the armed forces are operationalized and geared up to meet any eventuality to deal with the pandemic,” the statement said.
It added that testing labs had been established at main army hospitals across the country and a central testing lab set up at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rawalpindi.
“The armed forces of Pakistan are fully involved in assisting the government and provincial administrations to tackle the situation since the outbreak and duly vigilant of the developing situation [since the emergence of] COVID-19,” the military statement said.