There was no letup in the COVID-19-positive cases in Sindh as the province reported 2,438 new cases during the last 24 hours on Tuesday. 12 patients lost their lives in the province.
Despite a very loose and partial lockdown and other preventive measures, the Sindh government is still facing backlash from the federal government’s coalition partners including MQM-Pakistan and of course, the PTI minister.
The MQM-P’s leaders along with the city’s traders held a press conference in Karachi in which they, as usual, termed the lockdown as “discrimination” against Karachiites.
Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui was saying in Shahzeb Khazada’s programme on Geo News that in the Urdu-speaking dominated areas there is the strict imposition of the lockdown, whereas in posh localities like Clifton and Defence the businesses are open.
Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Information at a press conference in Islamabad blamed the provincial Sindh government for the worsening Covid-19 situation in Karachi and Hyderabad. According to him the percentage of vaccinated people in these two major cities of Sindh was lower than in other major cities of the country.
However, the Sindh government brushed aside all allegations. The provincial health department announced that it has converted 12 mobile hospitals in Karachi into vaccination centres to reach citizens in various areas of the metropolis and help them get vaccinated with ease.
Two of each such mobile vaccination centres would be sent to districts South, West, East and Keamari, three to district Central and one in District Malir.
A total of 19,427 coronavirus tests were conducted in the province in the last 24 hours while 548 more people recovered from Covid-19.
Meanwhile, Sindh Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said the provincial government has started vaccination of those adults who do not possess CNIC due to various reasons. A large number of Bengali and Burmese origin people live in Karachi’s Katchi Abadis and shanti towns and do not possess official documents. The minister pointed out that any document like a school certificate, B form or a personal guarantee would be acceptable for getting COVID-19 vaccination. Mobile vans would also be sent to localities where such people live in large numbers.
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