Coronavirus Update: Spike in Sindh

By Mukhtar Alam
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

At a time when the medical practitioners and political leaders fear that the coronavirus may wreak further damages to humanity and pose new challenges to the healthcare settings, the latest Sindh health department’s updates represented a more frightening picture of the ongoing coronavirus onslaught which claimed another four lives of people of age ranging 53 to 77 years in Karachi that had a total 1,167 positive cases of infection with 41 deaths.

COVID-19 has already reached to 21 districts of Sindh with Tando Allahyar being the latest in the list of infected districts was where four positive cases of the virus were confirmed by health authorities in 24 hours ending April 16 at 8 am. 

The official summary of entire cases showed confirmation of more new cases in Karachi (70), Ghotki (96), Shaheed Benazirabad (58), Sukkur (52), Sanghar (12), Larkana (11), Dadu (10), Hyderabad (8), Jamshoro (8), Sujawal (5), Naushehro Feroze (3), Badin (2) and Tando Mohammad Khan (1). 

Those who died at Karachi included two women of 60 and 65 years, respectively and two men of 53 and 77 years, respectively. 

In the meantime, according to the health department, 14 people recovered from the illness at Karachi and another two at Larkana. The overall infection rate remained 10.66%, with 18,826 tests and a total of 45 deaths revealed by the authorities concerned on April 16 across the province. 

There were a total 2,008 coronavirus positives cases in Sindh, including 340 cases reported on April 16, against 4,911 cases reported by the rest of Pakistan. The 63.5% of the total new infections (536) in the country were reported from Sindh, according to the federal government data.