ISLAMABAD – 2nd Coronavirus Death In Pakistan. Pakistani officials, on Wednesday, announced the country’s second confirmed fatality due to the novel coronavirus.
According to details, KPK health minister told media about the fatality. He said that the man died in a hospital in Mardan district near Peshawar. He visited Saudi Arabia earlier this month. It is the second coronavirus death in the country.
As of Wednesday, Pakistan had tested at least 1,621 people for COVID-19, with more than 250 positive cases. 2nd Coronavirus Death In Pakistan.
In Sindh, the number of cases reach to 155. Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab announced this via twitter. He said that in Sindh, 36 cases have been test positive for the virus. Meanwhile 119 pilgrims from Iran quarantined in Sukkur are test positive for the disease.
The cases in Lahore increased to six after Provincial Minister for Health Dr Yasmeen Rashid announced the confirmed cases. Meanwhile, there are 15 cases of the corona in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Five in Gilgit-Baltistan, two in Islamabad and 10 in Balochistan. The government awaits the results of several people who were test for the disease.
Meanwhile, World Health Organization called on all countries to ramp up their testing programmes. “We have a simple message to all countries – test, test, test,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva.