RAWALPINDI: Four people died of Covid-19 and 30 tested positive on Monday as 231 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering.
Dr Javed Akhtar Kiani, 57, a resident of Islampura Gujar Khan, was brought to Rawalpindi Institute of Urology (RIU) on Dec 25 where he died on Sunday night.
Fida Hussain, 66, a resident of Choha Road, Kallar Syedan, was under treatment at RIU since Dec 21 but breathed his last on Monday.
Mastaj Begum, 64, from Iqbal Town, Farooq-i-Azam Road, was being treated at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) since Dec 21 but could not survive and died on Monday.
Walayat Jan, 75, a resident of Quaid-i-Azam Colony, Dhamial, died at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) late Sunday night. The district has 769 active patients with 108 in hospitals and 661 home isolated. A total of nine patients are on ventilators while 50 on oxygen.
Rawalpindi doctors want OPDs closed as 188 staffers contract coronavirus
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Doctors in Rawalpindi have demanded that the government should shut down the OPDs across the city after 188 health workers tested positive for COVID-19. OPDs must be closed [during the coronavirus outbreak] since we can get in touch with patients via telemedicine service. People should only head to hospitals if they are in a critical state, a doctor employed at a government hospital told SAMAA TV.
Surgeries put off due to pandemic
Nine die of Covid-19 in Rawalpindi, more patients put on ventilators
RAWALPINDI:
The garrison city witnessed highest number of deaths caused by the second wave of novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in a single day on Friday when nine patients died of pandemic. The deceased included Ulfat Akbar, Gulab Khan, Mirza Gulab, Ashfaq, Saeed and Fauzia who were under treatment at Holy Family Hospital.
Two other patients succumbed to the disease at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH). According to official figures a total of 101 patients are currently under treatment at the Holy Family Hospital. Meanwhile at the main pandemic hospital, Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) 10 patients were put on ventilator while 79 were on oxygen support
Covid-19 is proving lethal for people in the age group of 80 and above while the highest number of positive cases were being reported among those in the age bracket of 50-59. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Covid-19 is proving lethal for people in the age group of 80 and above while the highest number of positive cases were being reported among those in the age bracket of 50-59.
According to officials of the capital administration, coronavirus has claimed more lives of people who are aged 80 and above with the ratio recorded at 14.31pc.
The second highest percentage of deaths among Covid-19 patients was reported in the age bracket of 70-79 which was 8.16pc, followed by 3.85pc in the age range of 60-69, 1.47pc among people in the age group of 50-59, 0.58pc in 40-49 age, 0.14pc in 30-39, 0.034pc in 10-19, 0.031pc in 0-9 and 0.014pc in the age bracket of 20-29, the officials added.
A team comprising American scientists and paramedical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has commenced research on Covid-19 patients in Pakistan. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: A team comprising American scientists and paramedical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) commenced research on Covid-19 patients in Pakistan.
In the first phase, the team started collecting samples of Covid-19 patients and sending them for lab tests. For this purpose, it also visited Taxila where 300 samples were collected, Pims spokesman Dr Wasim Khawaja told
Dawn.
Dr Khawaja said the team would also visit other cities with Faisalabad being its next stop in the coming week.