60pc increase in corona patients in Faisalabad in 4 days

FAISALABAD: Coronavirus is rapidly growing in Faisalabad as the Health Department has noticed 60 per cent increase in the patients during the last four days.

According to Dr Bilal of the Health Department, out of 57 local suspects of coronavirus who were brought to local public sector hospitals for screening tests, coronavirus in 13 patients was detected and they were shifted to the Ghulam Muhammadabad General Hospital for medication in the isolation ward. The number of corona patients was 20 in the beginning which had now been increased to 57 during the last four days, he told.

Meanwhile, the death toll of corona patients in Faisalabad had reached to four after the demise of Sidra Bibi while three corona patients were under treatment at the General Hospital, Ghulam Muhammadabad in precarious condition.

The total number of corona patients in the public sector hospital was 30 and out of whom three were shifted to ventilators.

‘FWCCI COLLECTING DATA OF WOMEN AFFECTED BY LOCKDOWN’: The Faisalabad Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry is busy compiling data of women entrepreneurs badly affected due to the prolonged lockdown, said Mrs Quratul Ain, the FWCCI president here on Tuesday.

She said that the government was making serious efforts to facilitate the small traders and industrialists who were affected due to the continuous closure of their shops and industrial units. She said that male businessmen being active players of the economy avail all the opportunities offered by the government but women generally remained deprived of these facilities because of their inherited shyness. She said that the FWCCI was collecting data of the women entrepreneurs who were badly affected due to the current crisis.

RATION BAGS: CPO Sohail Chaudhry has constituted seven police teams to distribute ration bags among the families of martyred police officials who laid down their lives while fighting with hard criminals and dangerous proclaimed offenders. According to PRO Amir Waheed, each ration bag would contain 20kg flour and other articles of kitchen. He told that there were 109 families of the martyrs in Faisalabad district which would be supplied the ration bags within a couple of days.

SIX BOOKED: Ghulam Muhammadabad police have registered a fraud case against six persons on the charge of extracting Rs 32 million from a man.

They include Azhar Ali Qureshi, Abid Ali and Syed Ashfaq Ali. The accused received the money from complainant Mubashar Shahzad of Dijkot on the false promise to sell him a shopping plaza in Faisalabad.

Girl commits suicide: A young girl committed suicide in Chak 97/RB, Balochni, on Tuesday. Aisha Bibi exchanged harsh words with her mother over a domestic issue and hanged herself from a ceiling fan with a rope. Meanwhile five more people attempted suicide. Khadija Bibi of Chak 203/RB, Amina Begum of Madina Town, M Asghar of Chak 116/RB, Sufian of Chak 141/RB,

and Bilal of Chak 221/RB attempted suicide by consuming poisonous pills over domestic issues.