NAWABSHAH: Six people, among 52 whose samples were collected a couple of days back in virus-hit localities, tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, raising total number of Covid-19 positive cases in the city to 66.

A team of health officials collected 52 samples in Manuabad and Ghulam Rasool Shah Colony and sent all the Covid-19 patients to a quarantine facility. The new cases included a son, a neighbour and a sister of a Covid-19 patient who had died from coronavirus. The number of Covid-19 patients through local transmission has reached 13 in the city.

The team had also collected 95 samples in Qazi Ahmed and Daur towns but they turned out to be negative.

DADU: Four people in Dadu and a man in Mehar town tested positive for coronavirus, according to DHO Dr Zahid Hussain Dawachh.

He said that the coronavirus patients were shifted to isolation ward at Hepatitis Centre. The four who tested positive for the virus were among the 270 whose samples were collected in Dadu, he said.

MIRPURKHAS: Two more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Sindhri taluka and three were released from isolation centre after recovering from the virus.

A team of health officials took samples of villagers in Ismail Kumhar village and two were found Covid-19 positive. They were later sent to isolation centre.

Meanwhile, three members of Tableeghi Jamaat recovered from the virus and were allowed to go to home.

SUKKUR: Thirty-six members of the Jamaat tested negative for the virus in two tests at quarantine centre and were sent back to their homes on Wednesday.

Officials said that the recovered Jamaat members belonged to Bannu, Peshawar, Lahore, Rawalpindi and other areas. More than 800 had already returned home after attaining complete recovery from coronavirus, they said.

Meanwhile, a suspected patient of coronavirus who was brought to Sukkur Civil Hospital two days go with Covid-19 symptoms died on Wednesday, said medical superintendent Dr Tasneem Khamisani.

He said that the patient’s sample had been taken for test but its result had not been released so far.

UMERKOT: PPP MPA Rana Hameer Singh tested positive for Covid-19 but he rejected the test result and sent his sample to Karachi while a youth tested positive for the virus and was shifted to isolation centre.

The MPA told Dawn that he had spoken to authorities at LUMHS Jamshoro who had doubted the test result and he therefore had sent samples to Karachi.

The MPA was among 40 persons who had undergone test.

The youth was an employee of a private bank at Karachi who had tested positive for coronavirus. He returned home six days before after he was granted leave by bank authorities when an employee tested positive for the virus.

According to officials, he had sent his sample to Aga Khan laboratory which confirmed he had contracted the virus. Later, a team of health officials shifted him to an isolation centre in Umerkot and quarantined his entire family whose samples were collected for tests.

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2020