The nationwide tally of Covid-19 patients soared to 45,032 on Tuesday, with 15,976 cases reported in Punjab, 17,947 in Sindh, 6,554 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2,820 in Balochistan, 556 in Gilgit Baltistan, 1,034 in Islamabad and 144 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The virus has claimed at least 969 lives while some 12,489 coronavirus patients have recovered so far.
As many as 12 patients tested positive for Covid-19 in Muzaffarabad in the last 24 hours, that has taken the total number of patients in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to 144. According to a spokesperson for the state government, a total of 4,242 people in the state have been tested so far, of which 144 were found infected and 77 of them have recovered and discharged from the hospitals.
The state government, on the other hand, reviewed its earlier decision taken on Monday to impose a stricter lockdown and allowed traders to open shops and businesses three days a week, the spokesperson confirmed.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department, in its daily situational report, has confirmed 11 more deaths due to coronavirus in the last 24 hours to raise the provincial death toll to 345. Seven deaths were reported from Peshawar, two from Abbottabad, and one each from Nowshera and Bajaur. At least 324 new cases – 53 from international flights centre – were also confirmed, taking the total to 6,554. As many as 114 more patients have recovered, taking the tally to 2,058, while active cases stand at 4,151 in the province.
Six more people contracted coronavirus in Gilgit Baltistan to raise the region’s tally to 556, health department officials said on Tuesday. At least 390 patients have recovered with four deaths in the region so far, while active cases stand at 162.
A Covid-19 patient who underwent plasma treatment at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) has recovered in Peshawar. This is the first time a patient has recovered from the treatment at HMC, said medical director of the hospital Dr Shehzad Akbar Khan, adding that the patient was brought in a critical condition. He said the plasma was donated by another patient who had recovered earlier in the hospital.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said 706 new infections were detected and 19 more people died from the disease in the previous 24 hours, taking the number of fatalities to 299 in the province.
The chief minister said a total of 12,907 patients are under treatment, 11,373 are in home isolation, 715 at various hospitals and 819 at isolation centres. He disclosed that 2,252 more patients have been cured and discharged to their homes. The total number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at 4,741, he added.Two more coronavirus patients have been administered plasma in Hyderabad, according to the head of Diagnostic and Research Laboratory of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Dr Ikram Ujjan. This brings the total number of patients who have been administered the said treatment in Hyderabad to six. Awami National Party (ANP) Central Secretary General Mian Iftikhar Hussain has tested positive for Covid-19, a press release from Bacha Khan Markaz said. ANP’s central secretary information Zahid Khan said that Hussain had complained of feeling unwell after attending the funeral of his elder brother Mian Sareer Khan, who had died of Covid-19. “His condition is improving but he cannot meet anyone and is under treatment. He will remain in isolation until he completely recovers,” Khan said. On Monday, senior ANP leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The novel coronavirus emerged in the central China city of Wuhan towards the end of last year and proliferated to almost the whole world within a couple of months. The Covid-19 respiratory illness caused by this mysterious contagion has so far infected more than 4.8 million people in 202 countries and territories of the world – and over 320,000 of them have died and counting.
