DM Monitoring
ISLAMABAD, May 10 (INP) China’s Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), at the invitation of Pakistan’s University of Peshawar (UOP), held a video conference on COVID-19 prevention and treatment on Thursday.
According to Gwadar Pro, Director General of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission Dr. Safdar Ali Shah, UOP Vice Chancellor Prof. Muhammad Asif Khan, XJTU Vice-President Xi Guang and more than 20 experts and scholars from Pakistan and China participated in the online conference.
Dr. Safdar Ali Shah expressed his gratitude to XJTU for its support during the epidemic. “Cooperation and exchange among educational institutes at this crucial moment are of great value. Experience sharing will contribute to the world’s joint fight against COVID-19,” he mentioned. Mr. Xi Guang mentioned that the epidemic in China has been brought under control, and China’s experience in fighting the virus will power Pakistan and other countries in containing the epidemic. “The Second Affiliated Hospital of XJTU had sent a medical team of more than 300 medics to Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak,” Xi said, “and our students returned to class recently.
