KARACHI: Three new cases of novel coronavirus have been diagnosed in Pakistan, including Islamabad’s first and second locally transmitted case in Karachi, on Saturday, pushing the country’s tally to 31.
A woman, who had recently arrived in the federal capital from the United States, was tested positive at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) today, the health facility’s spokesperson Dr Waseem Khawaja confirmed.
The patient is in critical condition and has been put on a ventilator, he added.
Meanwhile, two new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Sindh, pushing the provincial tally to 17.
One patient recently returned from Saudi Arabia while the other patient’s father has a travel history of the United Kingdom and transmitted the virus to his young child, Secretary Health Zahid Abbasi told Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah during the meeting of coronavirus task force.
The provincial health department has also taken the samples of second patient’s father.
Both cases are from Karachi.
Sindh now has two locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, a mysterious pneumonia-like disease caused by the coronavirus, the chief minister was informed.
“This is why I am continuously pursuing the matter to contain coronavirus,” he said and added that this was why he was banning all kinds of social, political and religious gatherings across Sindh.
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