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.
Now the fourth wave
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Medical experts are telling us that the Delta (Indian) variant of Covid-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide and is accompanied by a surge in deaths, almost entirely among unvaccinated people. In the last week, Pakistan reported 2,783 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, taking the country’s Covid-19 tally to 986,668. The country’s death toll climbed to 22,760 after 39 more people succumbed to the deadly disease. Meanwhile, 1,000 patients recovered from the deadly disease in a day taking total recoveries to 918,329. According to the National Command Operation Center (NCOC), total active Covid-19 cases across the country were reported to be 45,579.
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.
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LAHORE: Punjab health department on Saturday confirmed the presence of 12 cases of Indian Delta variant of COVID-19 in Lahore after it randomly tested samples through genome sequencing, ARY NEWS reported.
According to details shared by the Punjab health department, they randomly picked 28 samples from three hospitals in the city- Services Hospital, Meo Hospital and Jinnah Hospital- and carried out genome sequencing on them.
It turned out, according to the health department, that 12 of the samples from Lahore hospitals carried the Indian variant of COVID-19.
“We are taking measures to deal with it,” the secretary of health said adding that the Indian variant spreads 50 percent more than the other variants.