Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan has said that public sector testing capacity for Covid-19 has been increased from scratch to around 1500 per day adding that the existing number of tests would be doubled in the coming days.

This he said while talking to provincial minister for Health, Taimur Saleem Jhagra who called on him here the other day and discussed with him matters and steps related to increasing the per day testing capacity for suspected corona patients.

The health minister also apprised the chief minister of the salient features of the revised testing policy for Covid-19 recently notified by the health department.

He informed that several private sector service providers were being engaged to assist the provincial government to further increase the testing capacity upto 5000 tests per day.