KARACHI: Sindh Governor, Imran Ismail has been tested positive for the novel coronavirus on late Monday and he has gone on isolation to fight the deadly virus.
The Governor Sindh took to the twitter to make the announcement saying, “I have just been tested Covid 19 positive, Allah Kareem inshallah will fight it out.”
“PTI thought to fight out the most difficult in life and I believe this is nothing against what we r prepared for. May Allah give strength to fight this Pandemic inshallah”, Imran Ismail said.
Prime Minister Imran Khan wished Governor Sindh Imran Ismail a speedy recovery from the coronavirus on Tuesday, a day after the official tested positive for COVID-19.
“May Allah grant him the strength to fight this,” PM Imran said in a Twitter message.
On the other hand, Pakistan has reported more than 301 deaths from novel coronavirus while the total number of cases has surged to 14,097.
According to details, 5,526 patients have been tested positive for the epidemic in Punjab, 4,996 in Sindh, 1,984 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 781 in Balochistan, 318 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 245 in Islamabad and 65 in Azad Kashmir.
So far, 3,029 patients have recovered in the country.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, representatives of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) had also called for a strict enforcement of the lockdown to prevent congregations of all kinds to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The representatives of the PMA including President Dr Abdul Wahid Abbasi, Dr Muhammad Usaman Mako, Dr Zulifqar Soomro. Dr Iftikhar Shah, called upon the government to involve (in its task force) health experts from public sector medical universities/hospitals and organisations of doctors actively fighting the deadly virus.
“We kept quiet and were avoiding to give our opinion as government was taking steps to save the country from deadly effects of coronavirus, but now the cases are in thousands which is alarming,” they said.
Highlighting the gaps in the government strategy on Covid-19 and sharing suggestions, they said and added the government must reflect why the numbers of coronavirus cases were growing despite the lockdown.
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