Hyderabad — Sindh's second-largest city after Karachi — is fast emerging as a coronavirus hotspot, with a rise in both the city's positivity ratio and mortality rate worrying doctors.

According to Prof Dr Ikram Ujjan, head of the Diagnostic and Research Laboratory (DRL) of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Hyderabad's positivity ratio in late October and early November had varied between 10pc and 12pc.

“And now cases are increasing,” he said, adding that the positivity rate was increasing in districts of Sindh other than Karachi and Hyderabad as well. “These districts in lower and upper Sindh were [earlier] reporting around 1pc positivity ratio but it is now climbing up to 4pc which is a sharp increase.”

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