ISLAMABAD – Pakistan starts to achieve some early successes in fightagainst Novel coronavirus outbreak as more and more patients start torecover from the dangerous pandemic.
While the country sees a swift surge in coronavirus cases and deaths,recoveries are also taking place with Pakistan’s total number of patientstesting negative reaching 61 on Tuesday.
As many as 23 zaireen in Sukkur and 17 patients in Balochistan, amongothers, were tested negative after isolation and treatment.
Sindh education minister Saeed Ghani, who had tested positive for the virusover a week ago but was asymptomatic, also announced that he was now freeof the virus. Britain’s Prince Charles also got out of a self-isolation heentered a week ago after testing positive for coronavirus, the palaceannounced Monday.
But, the virus’s devastation continued in Pakistan and the world over.Covid-19 claimed many more lives on Monday taking Pakistan’s toll to 26.New cases also kept flooding in which made the country’s confirmed casessurge past 1,800.
PM Imran Khan, on the other hand, sounded persistently against large-scalelockdowns in his national address saying they don’t work for the poor.
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The global coronavirus terror continues to strengthen.
A top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters onSunday that it’s ‘entirely conceivable’ that more than 1 million people inthe US could contract coronavirus. Monday marked a grim new milestone forthe country where its death toll rose by a deadly 540-plus crossing 3,000.
President Trump on Monday said that keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000would be a ‘very good job’ as he extended social distancing rules to 30April.
In Europe too, the coronavirus dread showed no signs of abating with bothItaly and Spain registering over 800 single-day deaths each on Monday tooas the situation worsened in Germany, France, and the UK among otherEuropean nations.
