Pakistan's tally of COVID-19 patients rises to 94 with 42 new cases already reported in south Sindh province on Monday, the provincial health ministry confirmed.
Most of the new cases are the pilgrims who recently returned from Iran and were quarantined in Sindh where they were tested positive of the disease. With the emergence of the new cases, the total number of the disease-infected people in the province has risen to 76, the health ministry said in a tweet.
In southwest Balochistan province, a total of 10 infected people have been reported with most of those having a history of travelling to Iran. Four more confirmed cases are in isolation wards at a hospital in Islamabad while north Gilgit-Baltistan region and east Punjab province has three and one cases respectively, the national health ministry said.
Meeran Yousuf, media coordinator of the Sindh's health ministry, told Xinhua that two of the 76 affected patients have already been discharged from hospital after recovering, and the clinical condition of the remaining patients is stable.
Spokesman of Islamabad's Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Waseem Khawaja, said in a conversation with Xinhua that two patients in their isolation wards including a woman with travelling history of the United States are in critical condition.
Pakistan has recently revised its strategy to control the spread of the disease by taking more stringent measures, after a meeting of the National Security Committee. The new measures include ban on all kinds of social, political, entertainment, and unnecessary religious gatherings and closure of educational institutes.
