Coronavirus: The increasing toll in Sindh, latest reports
Karachi, 18th March: According to the latest reports from Baaghi TV, the toll of coronavirus patients in Sindh is increasing rapidly, and has reached up to 184, after the addition of 9 more confirmed cases today.
Three more cases were also confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by provincial Health and Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra and one in Azad Jammu and Kashmir by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan.
With the additional cases in Sindh, KP, and AJK, the national tally has risen to 253.
“143 tests of the 290 pilgrims that we conducted came back positive,” Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab told a press conference today. “All of these had been shifted from Taftan to quarantine in Sukkur,” Wahab added that all the affected people have been kept in isolation.
According to Murtaza Wahab, the Sindh government was given 200 kits by the federal government, out of which 100 were given to the Agha Khan University Hospital and the remaining to Dow University Ojha campus.” Now the Sindh government has imported 10,000 more kits, according to Murtaza Wahab.
“On the government level, tests are being conducted at Aga Khan, Indus Hospital and Dow University,” Wahab said. So far, he said, “506 tests have been conducted at Aga Khan, 277 at Indus and 61 at Ojha campus.”
Yesterday, the PM addressed the nation assuring them to stay calm and take preventive measures on the individual level under the rapidly increasing virus crisis.
