Alice Wells, who is the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, on Friday said Washington was going to provide $1 million as initial funding to Islamabad to fight the coronavirus spread in Pakistan.

Talking about the US-Pakistan partnership to help fight the pandemic affecting the entire world, she said the US government was responding to the situation in Pakistan with an initially aid of $1 million through the USAID. It will be used to bolster monitoring and rapid response, she added.

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Wells noted that the two countries were the longstanding partners in tackling global health challenges.

She said there were more than 100 recent Pakistani graduates of the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] – the top American agency dealing with diseases and pandemics – from its epidemiology lab, training currently on the ground to investigate the coronavirus cases in Gilgit-Baltistan and Punjab.