Patients of coronavirus enhance to 53 in Pakistan, 35 in Sindh

ISLAMABAD: Twenty new cases of the coronavirus were reported in Pakistan on Sunday, taking the country’s tally to 53.

Five new COVID-19 cases were reported in Karachi, the Sindh health department confirmed. Thirteen others returning from Iran via Taftan tested positive for the virus in Sukkur.

This brought the total number of cases in Sindh to 35, the health department said. Of them, two have recovered and been discharged, while 33 remain under treatment.

Earlier a case reported in Islamabad of a woman, who had recently arrived in the federal capital from the United Kingdom was first admitted at a private hospital but later shifted to an isolation ward at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and tested positive.

The patient said was said to be in critical condition and was being kept under ventilator, according to doctors.

Thirteen samples have been taken from the patient’s family members and the specimens have been sent to the National Institute of Health (NIH).

With four cases of COVID-19 in Sindh, the provincial tally has reached to 21 two of them recovered from the infection.

Sindh now has three locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, a mysterious pneumonia-like disease caused by the coronavirus.

Whereas the government has shut down marriage halls and cinema houses and imposed ban over public gatherings to avoid the spread of the virus. Moreover, all airports have been closed except those in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

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