KARACHI: Pakistan’s first coronavirus patient in Sindh has fully recovered discharged from hospital on Saturday (today) as his lab tests for the coronavirus have come out negative.
According to Media Coordinator to the Health Minister Meeran Yousuf, the patient, who is a student from a town on the outskirts of the metropolis, discharged from hospital on Saturday as his lab tests for the coronavirus have come out negative.
She said the patient was being treated in isolation for the last 10 days and he was tested three times during this period. His last test was conducted on Friday and it came out negative. As a result, doctors declared him fit to go home, she added.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, who was informed about the matter at a meeting with the coronavirus task force in Karachi, congratulated the family of the patient and declared it a huge success.
The patient was believed to have contracted the coronavirus in the Iranian. He was diagnosed positive on February 26 and admitted to the isolation ward of a private hospital in Karachi.
