According to the health department data, a total of 44,777 tests were conducted in Karachi over the past seven days. Of them, 7,580 came positive. — Reuters/File
KARACHI: A health crisis driven by the Delta variant — the most dangerous and transmissible form of the coronavirus to date — has emerged in the city ahead of Eidul Azha with sudden increase in Covid-19 positive cases over the past few days.
Sources told
Dawn the patients’ growing number had burdened major tertiary care hospitals where Covid-19 units were almost full to their capacity. A few hospitals were simply refusing to admit patients on grounds that they were out of space.