RAWALPINDI: Another 11 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday while one person died and one patient recovered.

A 60-year-old woman was brought to Kulsoom International Hospital from Askari II on Saturday with difficulty breathing and died Sunday morning.

With the new cases, Rawalpindi has now reported 6,821 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 282 deaths and 6,332 recoveries.

There are 100 patients in four government hospitals - the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology, Holy Family Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital. Of them, 11 patients are from Rawalpindi district and the rest are from elsewhere.

Another 107 patients are isolated in their homes. Health authority officials have said that patients under home isolation are asymptomatic but have tested positive for Covid-19.

Local administrations have also quarantined 394 people who were in close contact with confirmed patients.

According to data from the Rawalpindi division, 8,214 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 since March, including 6,821 in Rawalpindi, 621 in Attock, 485 in Jhelum and 287 in Chakwal.

So far, 7,656 people have recovered from the disease and 348 have died.

Commissioner retired Capt Mohammad Mehmood told Dawn that the number of Covid-19 patients is increasing in Rawalpindi district but remains under control in the other three districts. He said 101 patients are admitted to hospital in all four districts, and 109 are isolated in their homes, but the number of patients in hospitals’ high dependency units have decreased.

He said there were no Covid-19 cases confirmed in Attock, Chakwal or Jhelum on Sunday.

Published in Dawn, September 14th, 2020