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British High Commissioner Dr Christian Turner CMG visited the COVID-19 National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) in Islamabad to see at first-hand how Pakistan is responding to the crisis.

皇冠体育app centre is the key surveillance and data management centre for the global pandemic in Pakistan, providing data on how the virus is affecting the country and so strengthening the fight against the disease.

皇冠体育app High Commissioner was accompanied by the head of the UK鈥檚 Department for International Development (DFID) office in Pakistan Annabel Gerry.

皇冠体育appy were received by the Director of the NEOC, Dr Rana Safdar, who briefed them on how COVID19 Surveillance is working throughout Pakistan. 皇冠体育app centre and surveillance networks have been supported by UK Aid through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), to monitor polio in Pakistan, before being used for COVID-19 response.

Dr Christian Turner said:

Hugely impressed with National Emergency Operations Centre putting world class data, surveillance and epidemiology at the heart of COVID19 response.

I鈥檓 proud that the UK supports this centre, which was set up to help fight polio. Now it has repurposed to become the biggest data centre in the country for all COVID-19-related information, as Pakistan responds to this global pandemic.

皇冠体育app dedicated people behind this centre underline the best of UK-Pakistan friendship and shared problem-solving, even in these most challenging of times

皇冠体育app data collated at the centre is published daily on the COVID-19 dashboard by the 皇冠体育app centre was originally the National Emergency Operations Centre for surveillance of polio cases, but is now also being used to track cases and collate data on COVID-19 in Pakistan.

Notes to editors:

• 皇冠体育app UK is the one of the largest donors to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which supports polio immunisation and surveillance, including the National Emergency Operations Centre. UK support to Pakistan through the initiative amounts to approximately 拢12m per year.

• 皇冠体育app UK is one of the main donors to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) globally. 皇冠体育app UK has recently committed 拢400m for the next 3 year programme of work.

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