Chinese envoy lauds NCOC's efforts to curb coronavirus.

ISLAMABAD -- Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing on Thursday lauded National Command and Control Centre's role in mitigating coronavirus in the country.

"Commanding system of NCOC is contributing greatly for the prevention and control of this terrible virus," Jing said in a video message after attending the inauguration ceremony of the Isolation Hospital and Infections Treatment Centre in Islamabad.

Spread over 40-Kanal land, the 250-bed pre-fabricated facility is fully equipped to combat COVID-19 pandemic providing all modern facilities including five Intensive Care Units, ventilators, nurse calling system as well as maiden E-ICU facility to allow doctors from abroad to treat the patients through telemedicine.

The hospital is equipped with five ICUs, isolation wards, 95 oxygenated beds besides being equipped with CCTV cameras, and lab information. The Chinese government had provided $4 million for the construction of the facility.

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