Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Thursday said that there was no suggestion under consideration in the province to lift coronavirus lockdown. We will be allowing businesses to resume their activities under devised standard operating procedures (SOPs), he said, adding that currently the provincial government has only allowed businesses using online portal. We have nothing more important than the lives of the people,” he said while negating a propaganda that lockdown would be lifted in the province. Nasir Shah said that it was due to policies of the federal government that masses had to go through this confusion. “If the chief minister Sindh had not taken prompt action to tackle coronavirus then the situation could have been far worse than what it is today,” he said. His remarks came after Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday said that 358 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the province over the past 24 hours, pushing the provincial tally to 6,053. In a video statement, he said that 12 more people have died during the past 24 hours in the province, taking the number of people who have died from the disease to 112. The 12 recent deaths over the past 24 hours are the highest number of fatalities from the contagion in the province so far, he added. Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shahsaid that a total of 54,377 tests have been conducted so far, including 2578 done over the past 24 hours. He said that 53 more people recuperated in the province during the last 24 hours, raising the number of people who have recovered thus far to 1332. Moreover, 4721 patients of coronavirus have been under treatment including 3473 have been isolated at homes, the chief minister said. At isolation centres 741 patients have been admitted and 505 under treatment at hospitals, he added.
