LARKANA: A senior doctor of Sukkur, who contracted coronavirus from his patients, died at a Karachi hospital on Monday while 10 Covid-19 patients succumbed to the deadly virus during April at Chandka Medical College Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency unit (HDU).
CMCH medical superintendent informed participants in a meeting at commissioner’s office about the deaths from the virus. Samples of 11,851 suspected patients had been obtained since April to date out of whom 417 tested positive for the virus, putting positivity ratio in Larkana district at four per cent, said district health officer.
Commissioner Shafique Ahmed Mahesar instructed health officials to ensure availability of oxygen in ICU and HDU and take proper care of the patients. Consultants must visit the patients on a regular basis and PCR facility must be made available at the CMCH round the clock, he said.
COVID-19 claims 78 lives, infects 3,447 more people
May 11, 2021
The national tally of total active COVID-19 cases on Monday recorded 80,375 with 3,447 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 4,824 people recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours.
Seventy-eight corona patients died during the past 24 hours, 68 of them were under treatment in hospital and 10 were quarantined at homes, according to the latest update issued by the National command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
During the past 24 hours, most of the deaths occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa followed by the Punjab.
Out of total 78 deaths occurred in the last 24 hours, 31 of them died who were on ventilators. The National Covid positivity ratio during the past 24 hours was recorded 9.12 percent. It may be mentioned here that the Covid positivity ratio was the percentage of actual positive cases appearing in every 100 tests performed to identify the infected individuals. According to John Hopkins Bloom