Zubair Qureshi
The federal capital on Wednesday reported 3,195 confirmed cases of coronavirus—exactly an increase of 300 in one day. Twenty-four hours ago it was 2,895.
On Tuesday too, some 306 cases were added to the tally (from 2,589 to 2,895) raising alarm bells among the authorities regarding spread of coronavirus in the federal capital.
The number of deaths with 4 during the last twenty-four hours had taken the toll in Islamabad to 34.
On Wednesday employees of the Estate Department of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) refused to work after an assistant of the department Saleem Akhtar tested positive.
The staff upon receiving the news of the positive test of their colleagues went on strike and made it clear they would not return to work unless the entire building of the estate department is disinfected an proper measures are taken for safety of the staff.
The Estate Department of the CDA receives hundreds of complainants/clients on daily basis and “not all of them are properly sanitized nor they follow the Standard Operating Procedures-SOPs-as directed by the government,” said a senior staff member of the department requesting not to be named.
On Wednesday, Pakistan Institute of medical sciences (PIMS) admitted 12 patients of coronavirus out of the total 137 who visited the hospital.
The number of cases is rising in the federal capital and 12 is the largest figure so far of admitted patients of coronavirsus, said a doctor who works in the isolation ward.
With this latest increase the number of total patients at the hospital has reached 50—28 at the Isolation Ward (IW), 18 at the Private Ward Ground Floor (PWGF) and four at Private Ward First Floor (PWFF), he said. Two patients died at PIMS on Wednesday while 12 are on ventilators.
The overwhelming number of patients in Islamabad is attributed to large-scale violations of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of coronavirus and one could see crowds in markets and shopping malls and very few people were wearing masks or hand gloves.
