Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday chaired a meeting of all provincial deputy commissioners except that of Karachi, where it was decided to establish an isolation centre in each district headquarter of the province amid coronavirus pandemic.
“The concerned deputy commissioners will establish a quarantine facility in every district headquarters,” the chief minister said, while chairing the meeting, adding that the government would provide every possible facilities needed in the isolation centre.
He said that they would provide ventilators and other necessary medical equipment to six tertiary care hospitals in the province. “Overall 450,000 people came back from the Tableeghi Jamaat congregation,” he said while speaking on efforts to tackle virus outbreak in province and added that several of them who returned to Hyderabad had tested positive for the virus.
He said that they would keep all members of the group in isolation to avoid any spread of the virus. “If anyone of them would feel deterioration in health condition, he will be shifted to a hospital,” he said.
Earlier Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho confirmed two new deaths from novel coronavirus in Karachi, raising the provincial death tally to 13. She said that both patients were tested positive on April 1st and were cases of local transmission.
“We can confirm 2 more deaths in Karachi. Both patients were tested positive on 1st April & we cases of local transmission. They also had underlying health conditions,” reads a Tweet by Sindh Health Department. This brings the total number of deaths in Sindh to 13.
