Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho has confirmed the death of a 77 year old COVID-19 patient in the province.
The minister said the patient was a cancer survivor and had diabetes and hypertension when he contracted the virus. She added that the patient did not have any travel or contact history.
Now Pakistan’d death toll to 3, as reported in Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.
Globally, 176 countries have been affected, more than 9,700 people have died and more than 234,000 infected by the disease as it spreads rapidly to new territories.
“A large number of people [that] have reached from Iran to Karachi” amid the coronavirus outbreak and that the pilgrims had been quarantined.
Meeran Yousuf, the provincial health minister’s spokesperson said “We already know about them and they all have been quarantined,”
