Only two test positive for COVID-19 in Twin Cities in 24 hours

Islamabad: In last 24 hours, only two patients have been tested positive for coronavirus illness in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi taking total number of confirmed patients so far registered in the region to 180.

Though a confirmed COVID-19 patient, a female in her thirties who was undergoing treatment at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences since March 13 breathed her last at the hospital on Monday night recording the first death in the federal capital due to coronavirus illness.

According to details, a total of 83 patients have so far been tested positive for COVID-19 in Islamabad Capital Territory of which three have recovered, one died and 79 are active cases. Only one patient was tested positive for COVID-19 in ICT in last 24 hours. Data collected by ‘The News’ on Tuesday reveals that only one patient has been tested positive in last 24 hours from Rawalpindi district where as many as 24 new cases were registered in a single day, on Monday.

As many as five patients have so far been recovered out of a total of 94 patients tested positive from the district while the infection has already claimed three lives in Rawalpindi.

Talking to ‘The News’ on Tuesday, Executive District Officer (Health) Dr. Sohail Ahmed Chaudhary said a total of 254 persons have been under quarantine in the district of which 54 are at the quarantine facilities while 200 have been under quarantine at their homes.

He said the health department has provided personal protective equipment to healthcare providers at Corona Management Centre at Rawalpindi Institute of Urology including 400 N95 masks, 300 gowns, 1000 surgical masks, 1000 head covers and 1000 shoe covers.

It is important that the health department and the healthcare facilities in the district have been facing severe shortage of gloves for weeks however, the EDO Rawalpindi said that the hospitals have been purchasing gloves locally though the shortage still exists. I have been informed that the Punjab health department has dispatched PPEs for Rawalpindi and I hope that we would be able to receive that shortly, he said.