A doctor and five paramedic staffers of a cardiac hospital here contracted coronavirus, showcasing the risk health workers face at the time of the pandemic, it was learnt on Monday. According to details, six members of a cardiac emergency centre in Landhi area of the city were diagnosed with coronavirus after initially four of them showed virus symptoms-mainly fever. “A doctor, female nurse and two other paramedics were initially quarantined,” they said adding that later two more staffers tested positive for the infection. All of them have been quarantined as the authorities shut down the hospital over safety precautions. It is pertinent to mention here that Sindh province remains most affected from coronavirus in the countr. with most of the cases being reported from provincial capital Karachi. As many as 864 new cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed in Sindh over the past 24 hours, rising the tally of infections to 17, 241 across the province on Monday. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said 864 new infections were detected when 4,679 samples were tested. Three more people died from the disease in the previous 24 hours, taking the number of fatalities to 280 in the province, he added.
