By Mukhtar Alam: Sindh’s health authorities did not find any new coronavirus case to report from the interior of Sindh on April 12 as all the 93 confirmed new infections were detected in Karachi, taking the provincial tally of coronavirus infected people to 1,411, with
By Mukhtar Alam: The Sindh Health department has constituted a core group from the “Private Hospitals Core Committee” to utilize the medical expertise available with the private sector in the management of COVID-19 at government hospitals, it emerged on April 12. A source in the
By Mukhtar Alam: Four men and two women lost their lives at different hospitals of the province, taking an all-day high tally of corona related deaths to six, according to the Sindh health department data updated on April 11. A 65-years old woman died at
By Mukhtar Alam: The Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, in his routine video message, stated that the detection of 104 new coronavirus cases in one day was ‘quite worrisome situation’ and the reason behind this was ‘not a strict enforcement of lockdown.’ “During
By Mukhtar Alam: The doctors bodies appeared concerned over what they say failures of governments and health administration in providing due protection to frontline medical professionals against coronavirus in hospitals across the country. Demanding for provision of safety kits to front liners, the Pakistan Islamic
By Mukhtar Alam: According to the Sindh health department’s updates on corona, 86 new infections were confirmed in 586 tests conducted in 24 hours ending at 8 am on April 10. The tally of overall corona infection reached to 1,214 in the province. The corona
By Mukhtar Alam: The name of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah’s brother-in law, Syed Mehdi Shah, who died at a private university hospital of Karachi on April 9, has finally been included in the official list of people having died of COVID-19 in
By Mukhtar Alam: The private hospitals in Karachi have expressed their reservations over the government’s demand for reserving 10 percent of their beds for treatment of coronavirus infected patients and suggested to the authorities to first utilize the public sector facilities to the optimum. The
By Mukhtar Alam: The researchers at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) have explored natural mutations which, according to them, can withstand the novel coronavirus in human genes. The experts associated with the DUHS’ Dow College of Biotechnology (DCB) reckoned that the recent research
By Mukhtar Alam: Sindh, with 21 confirmed deaths, topped among the provinces which have commutatively reported so far 63 deaths among 4,489 coronavirus patients till April 9. The Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, confirmed the 21st death in the province on April 9