KARACHI: At least six doctors have been tested positive with novel coronavirus in the Sindh’s capital.
Along with six doctors, four employees of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Accident Emergency and Trauma Centre were tested COVID-19 positive while performing their duties. As per sources, the doctors and the officials have been shifted to quarantine centre and were undergoing treatment.
Last week, a female doctor at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital contracted the coronavirus. The doctor’s husband, who is also a doctor at another hospital, had contacted the virus earlier. The authorities suspected the doctor had contracted the virus from her husband.
Last month, two doctors in Punjab had positive for the disease. It is reported that the affected doctors were performing their duties at a quarantine centre in Dera Ghazi Khan when they started showing symptoms linked with COVID-19.
Moreover, Balochistan has registered eight more cases of coronavirus after which the number of people affected by the outbreak has increased to 228 in the province. According to the National Command and Operation Center, 190 new cases were reported in the country during the last 24 hours.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has surged to 4,980. The number of the virus cases reported highest in Punjab with 2,336, 1,218 in Sindh, 656 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 113 in Islamabad, 215 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 34 cases were reported in Azad Kashmir.
Overall, 54 percent of the cases came from other countries and 46 percent were locally transmitted. So far 762 patients have recovered and 77 have died from the virus.
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