Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho said on Wednesday that 50 per cent of the samples in a Covid-19 genomic study conducted in Karachi were confirmed to be of the UK coronavirus variant. — Dawn/File
Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho said on Wednesday that 50 per cent of the samples in a Covid-19 genomic study conducted in Karachi were confirmed to be of the UK coronavirus variant.
In a video message released on Twitter, Pechuho said that the UK variant "spreads very rapidly" and it had already spread in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab as a result of which "a lot of deaths are occurring and a lot of patients are being affected."