PAF Museum to be turned into isolation centre for Covid-19 patients

KARACHI: As the number of coronavirus cases in Sindh continues to grow, the provincial government has decided to set up another isolation facility at Pakistan Airforce (PAF) Museum located on Shahrah-

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May 3, 2020

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PAF Museum to be turned into isolation centre for Covid-19 patients

KARACHI: As the number of coronavirus cases in Sindh continues to grow, the provincial government has decided to set up another isolation facility at Pakistan Airforce (PAF) Museum located on Shahrah-e-Faisal.

Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab said that the provincial government had spent about Rs134 million on establishing the Field Isolation Facility at Expo Centre in the city while an initial amount of Rs30 million has been disbursed for the purpose of providing another isolation centre to house Covid-19 patients at the museum.

It may be noted here that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Sindh has surged past the 7,000-mark. “We conducted 3,259 tests during the past 24 hours and 427 of them came out positive,” the chief minister of Sindh had said in a statement on Saturday.

Out of the 427 positive cases diagnosed in the province, as many as 376 were reported in Karachi.

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