One more case of coronavirus has been diagnosed in the city on Thursday evening, taking the number of cases in Sindh to three.
This was disclosed in the meeting of the Task Force on Coronavirus held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here on Thursday at the CM House.
The new patient was said to be a 69-year-old man who belongs to District East of Karachi.
The chief minister said he was making all out efforts to contain coronavirus, but unfortunately a third case had been detected.
He directed the health department to isolate the family members of the new patient and trace all those who he had been in close contact with.
The meeting was attended by Minister of Health Dr Azra Pechuho, Minister of Local Government Nasir Shah, Advisor on Law Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, IG Sindh Mushtaq Maher, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani, Home Secretary Usman Chachar, Adl IG Karachi Ghulam Nabi Memon, Secretary Health Zahid Abbasi, DG PDMA Salman Shah, Dr Faisal of Aga Khan Hospital and representatives of Rangers, Corps-5, Civil Aviation, Airport and FIA.
The chief minister was told that six samples of coronavirus suspects were sent for lab test, of them one has been declared as positive and another one negative, while the result of four samples were being awaited.
The chief minister was informed that so far 251 tests of coronavirus suspects had been conducted all over Pakistan which include 59 in Islamabad, 75 in Punjab, 68 in Sindh, KPK 24, Balochistan eight, AJK three and Gilgit Baltistan 14. Out of 251 tests only six cases have been diagnosed as positive, of them two are in Balochistan, three in Sindh and one in Gilgit Baltistan.
The meeting was told that the total number of pilgrims had been calculated at 2355, of them 1748 have completed 14 days quarantine and have no symptoms of the virus, 497 are in quarantine at their homes and 110 are still untraceable. The chief minister directed the secretary of health to hand over the CNIC numbers of the untraced pilgrims to NADRA to trace them properly.
Video conference: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah through a video link participated in the meeting organized by PM's Special Assistant on Health Dr Zafar Mirza on coronavirus in Islamabad.
Through the video link the meeting was also attended by the health minister and chief secretary of Punjab, health secretary of KPK, secretary of health of Gilgat Baltistan and chief secretary of Balochistan.
The chief minister said that the first case had been diagnosed in Sindh and after that he had been holding regular meetings.
He said that the pilgrims who returned to Sindh had been traced through district committees headed by deputy commissioners.
"We have tried to contain the coronavirus through Public-Private Partnership with Indus Hospital. A renowned doctor of the Aga Khan Hospital, Dr Faisal, is also on board with the Sindh government," he said.
The chief minister requested the federal government to share the province-wise details of the pilgrims who had been put in quarantine at Taftan and Chaman so that his government could take necessary measures.
The chief minister also pointed out that in Balochistan the pilgrims returning from Iran were being kept in quarantine only for five days. He suggested that they must be kept for 14 days as recommended by the experts/doctors.
Sindh chief minister offered Balochistan his support on quarantining of pilgrims, testing of suspects and provision of necessary equipments.
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