Adversity teaches to fight and leads to inventions: Fawad Ch.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary said on Saturday that adversity teaches to fight and leads to inventions.

Talking to a private news channel he said first COVID-19 case was reported in Pakistan on 26th of February and Pakistan was not manufacturing masks, goggles, protective kits and other items for the protection from coronavirus as we had been importing the stuff from China.

While after the outbreak of COVID-19, there was shortage of sanitizers and disinfectants. But after six to eight weeks, we are not only fulfilling our requirements of sanitizers but also in position to export the stuff, added by Fawad Chaudhary.

He said Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) and other industries with the support of the government were preparing protective kits indigenously and soon we will be able to export it as well.

Pakistan is in final phase to manufacture the ventilators on its own. Our scientists, engineers and technicians have done a...