One of Karachi’s most famous forensic medicine experts Dr Farhat Mirza perished in a fire that broke out in his house in Mohammad Ali Housing Society in the middle of Wednesday night a death that could have been averted had a fire tender reached in time. Investigations by SAMAA Digital reveal that a fire tender could not be dispatched from the closest fire station because it was shut. Its sole person on duty, a driver, had gone home.Along with Prof. Farhat Mirza, a retired judge and a retired higher secondary school teacher also died in the blaze. The house, No 19-D in Sector D of MAHS, is located off Karachi main artery, Sharah-e Faisal. Records from the Central Fire Brigade office te.
Why does Karachi desperately need a coronavirus lockdown?
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Thursday Jul 29, 2021
A man wearing a protective mask walks through a crowd of people along a makeshift market as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Karachi. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus is spreading in Karachi like wildfire. The positivity rate has surged past 30%, hospitals are running out of space, the demand for oxygen tanks is increasing and daily cases are continuing to pile up.
Given the alarming rise in cases, Pakistan Medical Association Secretary-General Dr Qaiser Sajjad has suggested imposing a 15-day lockdown in the metropolis.
Dr Sajjad believes that if we count those people who have not taken a PCR test for COVID-19, the positivity ratio in the city has likely reached 40%.
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July 28, 2021
Alarm bells started ringing in Islamabad over the Covid-19 situation in Karachi where positive cases surged to 30.58 per cent as 1,704 people tested positive when 5,571 tests were conducted at 24 testing facilities in the city over the past 24 hours, Sindh health department officials said on Tuesday.
“The positivity of cases is continuously rising in Karachi, and we are still far from peak of this wave. With an alarmingly high number of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisation has reached record numbers and now most of the tertiary-care health facilities are unable to cope up with the pressure of patients,” an official of the health department told The News.
Water accumulates near the offices of several provincial ministers (White Star).
KARACHI: While a few areas of Karachi received rain early on Wednesday morning, light showers in several other areas in the evening turned the city’s prevailing hot and humid weather pleasant.
The Met department has forecast hot and humid weather with chances of rain-thunderstorms at evening/night in Karachi for Thursday with maximum temperature ranging between 36 degrees Celsius and 38 degrees Celsius.
On Wednesday, the maximum temperature in the city was 39.7 degrees Celsius.
The Met department recorded 2mm rain each in Gulshan-i-Hadeed, PAF Masroor Base and Jinnah terminal. It recorded 1.6mm rain at Karachi University/Met complex, 0.7mm in the old Airport area, 1.1mm at PAF Base Faisal while North Karachi and Saadi Town had traces of rainfall.