2 National Institute of Health (NIH):
The Pakistan National Institute of Health (NIH) has important role in preventing virus by circulating protocols regarding Covid-19 prevention, transmission and also launching public awareness campaigns throughout country (Khanain, 2020). These can be related to use biosafety hazards such as wearing facemasks and gloves, use of personnel protective equipment, handling of suspected cases, sample collection and transport of virus, adequate hand washing and body hygiene, etc. (Saqlain et al., 2020).
During the starting days of epidemic Pakistan lacked proper diagnostic facility and suspected samples were sent to foreign laboratories for testing (Saqlain et al., 2020). Later Pakistan receive test kits from the China and primers from the Japan to detect virus. According to federal government Pakistan is now capable of testing samples within the country at the main laboratory at the NIH. The federal NIH also supports all Pakistani provinces for establishing provisional surveillance units (Khanain, 2020).