(SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza on Sunday said that the Pakistani students who were stranded in the Chinese city of Wuhan, during the peak of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak, are now thanking the government for not evacuating them.
Dr Zafar said: riefing a team of doctors from China at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad. We decided — it was a tough decision for us — against evacuating our students from Wuhan. We worked very closely with the Chinese government and just followed their recommendations.
“Today now that the disease is spreading in Pakistan the same students are thanking the government for not evacuating them and requesting us to take care of their families in the same way they were looked after by the Chinese government.
Dr Zafar said: that when President Arif Alvi Umar and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi visited China recently, they spoke to the students in Wuhan through Skype.
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