COVID-19: Sindh to observe three-day complete lockdown

KARACHI: The Sindh government has announced to impose three-day complete lockdown, beginning from Friday to Sunday, ARY News reported on Thursday.

A notification released by the Sindh government read that a complete lockdown will be observed across the province during Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Under the latest orders, public gatherings and processions will be completely banned during the next three days. The chief minister appealed masses to stay inside homes in view of the rising number of coronavirus cases.

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758 new cases of the novel coronavirus were detected and nine patients died in Sindh over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 234, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Thursday.

In a video message on the coronavirus situation in the province today, he said Sindh conducted 4,408 tests against which 758 – or 17 per cent – were declared positive. So far, 10,7827 tests have been carried out in the province, he added.

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The number of people infected with the coronavirus in the province has jumped to 14,099 with the addition of the new infections. CM Sindh said 238 patients were discharged after full recovery over the previous 24 hours, taking the number of patients recovered to 3,073.

He said 10,738 patients are under treatment in Sindh, including 9,307 in home isolation, while 915 are being kept at isolation centres and 561 at different hospitals. 105 patients are in critical condition, of them 37 are on ventilators, he added. Of 758 new cases of the coronavirus, 555 were detected in Karachi.

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It is pertinent to mention here that the provincial government had also eased restrictions by granting permission to small businesses to resume activities from Monday amid lockdown.