Another doctor infected with coronavirus at Karachi hospital.

KARACHI -- A female doctor at Karachi's Abbasi Shaheed Hospital has been infected with novel coronavirus, sparking concerns among other medics, paramedics and nurses forced to tend COVID-19 patients without personal protective equipment (PPE), media reported on Saturday.

The hospital administration has allowed the coronavirus-affected medic to get herself admitted in a private hospital for treatment.

Senior director health services Dr Salma Kausar said health workers discharging duties with the affected doctor have been instructed to self-isolate themselves at their homes for 14 days and take a COVID-19 test.

She said the doctor's spouse, a healthcare professional at the Civil Hospital, has also been infected by the virus. She said he was performing duties at the Karachi airport where he may have caught the disease while...