UN: (UNHCR steps up efforts to support the COVID-19 response in Pakistan).

ISLAMABAD -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is dispatching core relief items in support of the Government of Pakistan's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The relief items include medical supplies and sanitation products such as sanitary clothes, soap and disinfectants. They will be provided to health facilities in support of refugees and host communities in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.

On Thursday, four trucks carrying some of the many items left from UNHCR's central warehouse in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; destined for Balochistan.

More items will be delivered next week. "UNHCR is committed to supporting the Government's COVID-19 prevention and response measures," said the UNHCR Deputy Representative in Pakistan, Mr Iain Hall in a press statement here on Friday.

He said the Agency's priority is to contribute to the overall effort to minimize the spread and impact of the...