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Coronavirus Update: 11 more, including a kid, perish in Sindh

By Mukhtar Alam
(Pakistan News & Features Services)


Sindh reported its first death among the COVID-19 positive patients living in the age brackets of zero to nine years on May 11, as a three-year-old girl from Hyderabad lost her life at a Karachi hospital, taking the overall fatality toll to 200 for the province. 

According to official statistics, as of May 11, there were 704 coronavirus positive patients of ages from zero to nine years, followed by 70 plus-year-old COVID-19 patients (481).

A health department official said that the kid had an auto-immune disease, and also was mentally challenged since her birth. 

The disabled girl was brought from Hyderabad some days back by her family for treatment to Karachi where she was, initially, admitted to a private hospital in KDA Scheme 33 and later shifted to the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) where she breathed her last at night on May 10, the official added, saying due to complex health status baby’s organs had also started malfunctioning. 

Apart from the minor girl, eight more people including a woman, aged from 20 to 89 years, died of COVID-19 at Karachi, while two men of 84 and 90 years expired at Hyderabad. 

According to the health department’s COVID-19 summary updated on May 11 morning, with the detection of 537 new coronavirus cases, the number of infected people rose to 12,017 in the province, while the number of total tests conducted stood as 95,053. 

As many as 3,730 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on May 11. Karachi reported 448 positive cases, followed by Sukkur (22 cases), Shikarpur (19), Kambar Shadadkot (11), Tando Allahyar (8), Larkana (7), Hyderabad (4), Sanghar (4), Matiari (4), Jacobabad (3), Sujawal (2), Jamshoro (1), Badin (1) and Mirpurkhas (1). 

Another 68 recovered from the disease during the 24 hours, taking the tally of such people to 2,149. Giving a breakdown of the infected peersons in the province, the report said that 11,103 (93%) people, including 767 members of tableeghi jamat, contracted the virus locally, while 634 (5%) returned infected from abroad, in addition to 280 (2%) pilgrims who returned from Taftan, Iran.
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