SIALKOT: The Sialkot district administration lifted the three-week home quarantine for 14,000 people in Sialkot district on Friday after they all tested negative for coronavirus.

Deputy Commissioner Dr Nasir Mehmood Bashir told Dawn those people remained in quarantine in 2,200 houses. Of them, 2,597 had travel history, due to which their close contacts also came under isolation enforcement.

TOBA TEK SINGH: A man earlier declared positive for Covid-19 tested negative for the virus in a second report received here on Friday from the Islamabad National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS).

The man, of Kamalia, was shifted to the Kamalia tehsil headquarters hospital on April 5 when a private laboratory tested him positive for the virus. Later, an NIHS lab report also declared him positive while his wife and four children were found free from the virus.

Kamalia THQ Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Jawad Ahmad said they got the man tested twice and both times, he was declared negative.

Tableeghi Jamaat activists protest ‘biased treatment’

SARGODHA: Over 200 Tableeghi Jamaat activists quarantined at Tableeghi Markaz in the Factory area protested on Friday against, what they say, mismanagement and biased attitude of the administration.

They alleged that 61 preachers from Sindh had been allowed to go home while the administration misplaced their results and once again they were passing through agony of quarantine. They said that no arrangements had been made to provide them food.

GUJRANWALA: The health department discharged 33 quarantined people after their repeated tests for Covid-19 turned out to be negative.

DHQ Hospital Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Gulzar Ahmad told Dawn they were shifted to isolation wards four weeks ago. First they completed their mandatory 14-day quarantine and later on underwent tests.

The hospital administration handed over the cleared people to their families. The DHQ hospital administration presented flowers to the discharged patients.

GUJRAT: Up 64 zaireen who returned from Iran have arrived in Gujrat where the authorities shifted them to a quarantine centre in Nawaz Sharif Medical College.

The health authorities also took swabs of these zaireen for Covid-19 tests.

Earlier, 20 zaireen tested positive for the virus and few of them have alsobeen discharged from the hospital after making recovery from the infection. Also, four more people tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday and total number of the patients is now reached at 190 out of which 108 have been recovered and discharged from the hospital.

KASUR: A doctor and a supervisor of a quarantine centre tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday raising the total number of infected people to 58 in Kasur.

The health teams, according to Health Chief Executive Officer Dr Nazir Ahmed, also collected samples of the family members.

Earlier, the administrator of the District Public School also tested positive for the virus and was quarantined at the Kasur DHQ Hospital.

Also, 60 pilgrims who returned from Saudi Arabia have been shifted to the DPS quarantine centre from Lahore.

Published in Dawn, April 25th, 2020