Delta variant accounts for 92pc Covid cases in Karachi
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Health authorities have started reserving more beds, wards and human resources at two major tertiary-care hospitals in Karachi to deal with the growing number of Covid-19 cases, as the positivity rate due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, which accounts for 92 per cent of the infection cases in the city, has jumped to 23.32 per cent.
“A surgical ward comprising 48 beds is being converted into a Covid-19 ward at the Civil Hospital Karachi [CHK], while the pulmonology ward at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre has also been put on standby to deal with the rising cases due to the Delta variant, which is now spreading like wildfire in the city,” a Sindh Health Department official told The News on Sunday.
Delta variant spreading like ‘wildfire’ in Karachi; more restrictions on the cards
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Provincial Task Force to meet today to review the pandemic situation.
Sindh government has started taking precautionary measures to meet the challenge.
KARACHI: The provincial government is likely to take strict measures in the metropolis to curb the fast spread of the Delta variant, which now accounts for 92% of the infection cases, with the positivity ratio exceeding 23%.
An official of the Sindh Health Department told
The News that to contain the spread of the coronavirus in Karachi, some strict measures can be decided by the provincial government during the next meeting of the Provincial Taskforce on COVID-19, which is scheduled to meet today.