Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary said that affliction educates to battle and prompts inventions.
Minister of Science and technology talking to media person said the first COVID-19 case was accounted for in Pakistan on the 26th of February and Pakistan was not fabricating masks, goggles, protective gear, and different things for security from coronavirus as we had been bringing in the stuff from China. He further added that corona has led us to the invention.
While after the rise of COVID-19, there was a lack of sanitizers and disinfectants. Be that as it may, following six to about two months, we are satisfying our necessities of sanitizers as well as in a position to send out the stuff, included by Fawad Chaudhary.
He said Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) and different businesses with the help of the administration were planning to manufacture protective gear indigenously and soon we will be able to export it. Pakistan is in stage to manufacture and the ventilators all alone. Our researchers, scientists, and specialists have worked admirably in these conditions. In these problematic conditions, invention and innovation is the need of the hour.
He said the beginning of 2020 was bad as COVID-19 had totally changed the situation. The daily wagers and workers were the most influenced section in the nation. We should deal with the low-class section in vital occasions.
He further said that the ideological groups of the nation were hurting themselves and individuals by contradicting the utilization of innovation, while the open agents must assume their job in dynamic procedure in this troublesome time.
He trusted that not long after the situation comes back to normal, parliament meetings could be held in the building, yet the virtual meeting of parliament was the need of the hour.