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Coronavirus Update: Sindh reports first death outside Karachi

By Mukhtar Alam 
(Pakistan News & Features Services)



The Sindh Health department on April 2 confirmed 52 new Coronavirus cases, taking the provincial tally of infected persons to 761, with 11 deaths including the first one outside Karachi, while overall the country’s figure stood at 2,386 with 34 deaths. 

The provincial health minister, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, informed that the 10th person losing his life due Coronavirus (Covid-19) was a resident of Tando Mohammad Khan, who was brought for treatment to a hospital in Hyderabad. 

The deceased, aged 65 years, was admitted to the hospital on March 28, the minister added, saying the man was member of a tableeghi jamat and was tested positive for coronavirus at the hospital. 

The 11th corona related death was of an 86-year-old man from Karachi who passed away within 24 hours of his admission at the hospital.

According to the Sindh health department, Coronavirus infected cases reported from Karachi division and other six districts of the province, out of which 416 were local transmission cases, while the remaining infections were detected in passengers who returned from various countries and pilgrims returning from Iran. 

The Sindh data updated at 6.15 pm showed 336 cases in Karachi, 273 in Sukkur, 137 in Hyderabad, seven in Larkana, six in Shaheed Benazirabad and one each at Dadu and Jacobabad.

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