Coronavirus kills first two victims in Pakistan

Coronavirus kills first two victims in Pakistan

Number of confirmed cases now over 245
• PM visits quarantine centre near D.G. Khan
• Buzdar sets up Rs5bn fund
• FM pins hopes on China’s anti-virus expertise

ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: The inevitable finally befell on Wednesday while Pakistan joined the rapidly growing listing of countries with coronavirus fatalities after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded the country’s first two deaths from the pandemic.

The deceased were identified as Saadat Khan, 50, and Abdul Fatah, 36. Saadat Khan, who belonged to Mardan, had returned from Saudi Arabia after acting Umra at the same time as Abdul Fatah, who hailed from Hangu, had lower back from Dubai.

KP Adviser on Information Ajmal Wazir showed the deaths.
Earlier within the day, as the unconventional coronavirus (COVID-19) Control and Command Centre (CCC) introduced that universal 247 instances had been confirmed across the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan paid a visit to a quarantine centre hooked up at the agriculture campus of Ghazi University Dera Ghazi, adjoining to Dera Ghazi Khan airport.

The data issued by the CCC, being run with the aid of Inter-Services Public Relations and Ministry of National Health Services, confirmed that 183 instances have been showed in Sindh, 19 in KP, 15 in Balo­ch­istan, thirteen in Gilgit-Baltistan, 9 in Punjab, seven in Islamabad and one in AJK.
 However, with sufferers of KP having exceeded away after the CCC had issued its information, the overall number of instances have to be at 245.

More than 800 pilgrims, who came from Taftan border on March 14, had been put within the quarantine centre at Ghazi University underneath medical supervision for 14 days.

PM Khan, followed by way of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, spoke to the pilgrims and requested approximately their problems.

The ultimate additionally discussed the problem of upcoming arrival of some other 2,400 pilgrims from Taftan, which includes the 1,400 who would be housed in Punjab.

According to a statement issued through PM Office, Mr Khan issued directive for sharing statistics concerning COVID-19 with the kingdom on a every day basis.
He stated that folks who labored on a every day wages, might also come to the Panahgahs [shelter homes] wherein they might be accommodated after screening.

During a go to to Multan, Mr Buzdar said that 189 suspected coronavirus patients have been admitted to numerous hospitals inside the province and the wide variety of confirmed sufferers of coronavirus inside the province become 28.

Talking to media during his go to to a quarantine centre established at Industrial Estate, the chief minister stated the authorities had started out taking initiatives inside the province in opposition to the spread of the virus from Jan 3.

“A ban has been imposed for going to visitor locations together with Murree at the same time as a choice has been taken to set up a fund of Rs5 billion on this regard and to begin with Rs236 million have been allocated. 

The health department could be supplied a further Rs1bn. The entry of human beings has been limited in civil secretariat and government offices. 
It has additionally been determined that purchasing halls and restaurants might be closed at 10pm throughout the province; however clinical stores, standard stores, factories and markets will stay open,” he stated.

He said centers in quarantine facilities could be improved whilst help might also be provided to the Balochistan authorities to improve centers on the quarantine facilities in that province.

He stated the provincial authorities could set up a field health facility of 1,000 beds and 41 excessive dependency units have been established whilst three clinic one each in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Muzaffargarh were selected for the remedy of coronavirus patients.

“Health emergency has been declared in the province and Section a hundred and forty four has been imposed to ward off the collection of the people,” he stated.

Chinese help
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who lately visited Beijing, said China could provide trying out kits, ventilators and other scientific system to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

While talking to media, he said China would also offer cash in grants to Pakistan for use to installation a modern-day isolation centre to fight the infectious disease.

He said China would additionally share its clinical knowledge to combat the coronavirus.

Mr Qureshi stated the government had discovered from the Chinese enjoy and become looking to emulate it to counter the assignment in Pakistan.

While there are concerns approximately China’s economic system while the pandemic was over, Mr Qureshi said the fundamentals had been very strong and solid.

GB Chief Minister Hafeez-ur-Rehman instructed a press convention in Gilgit that each one domestic travelers were barred to enter GB for 3 weeks even as international tourists will be allowed after clinical certification.
Home Secretary Muhammad Ali Randhawa denied reports that one character had died from coronavirus within the region.

Tariq Birmani from Dera Ghazi Khan, Shakeel Ahmed from Multan, Jamil Nagri from Gilgit and Tariq Naqash from Muzaffarabad also contributed to this story.