BAHAWALPUR: At least 1,155 Covid-19 patients belonging to various parts of the province and quarantined here were allowed to go home after their tests came out negative.

According to the focal person for coronavirus, Dr Zakir Hussain, the quarantined people, including pilgrims from Iran and members of Tableeghi Jamaat, were discharged after they tested negative for coronavirus. They were quarantined at the IUB hostels for the last 14 days.

Dr Hussain further said that 45 patients of the virus were under treatment at the government civil hospital here.

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Five Covid-19 patients from the city were referred to Muzaffargarh’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital.

Dera Ghazi Khan Health Chief Executive Officer Dr Khalil Sikhani told Dawn that swabs of 22 members of a family were sent for tests out of whom five, including four women and a man, were declared Covid-19 positive and referred to the Muzaffargarh hospital.

SHEIKHUPURA: Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from the DHQ hospital after recovering on Wednesday.

The two men were shifted to hospital from the Muridke THQ hospital after they had tested positive for the virus. They were discharged after their last test conducted by a Lahore laboratory came out negative.

Currently, there wee 12 coronavirus patients at the DHQ hospital.

SIALKOT: The total number of confirmed patients of coronavirus here increased to 184 with 14 new cases on Wednesday.

Rescue 1122 shifted the 14 people to Govt Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital and Govt Social Security Hospital from Daska, Sambrial, Begowala, Pasrur as well as Sialkot.

TOBA TEK SINGH: A British-Pakistani belonging to Gujjar Basti here died of Covid-19 in the UK.

His younger brother told reporters on Wednesday that his 59-year-old sibling had been living in London for three decades with his family. He was admitted to hospital 15 days ago after he developed a fever and breathing problems, and later tested positive for Covid-19.

His brother later recovered from the virus, but it had damaged his lungs and he suffered from double pneumonia due to which he died.

Meanwhile, two suspected Covid-19 patients tested negative here on Wednesday and are set to be discharged from hospital within a couple of days.

Doctors said two women were admitted to the DHQ hospital three days ago. One of them was brought here from Shorkot Rafiqui airbase PAF hospital where she had gone for treatment of flu and fever.

The other woman belonged to Sindhillianwali and worked as a domestic help in Lahore and had recently returned home. She was taken to Pirmahal THQ hospital with fever and flu but doctors referred her to DHQ hospital.

SAHIWAL: Four people, including two police constables, a woman security guard and a hospital operation theatre assistant, tested positive for coronavirus during the past 24 hours in Pakpattan district, raising the number of Covid-19 patients in the district to 25.

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2020