Beds for Covid patients in Sindh increased, SC told.

ISLAMABAD -- The Sindh government informed the Supreme Court on Monday that it had increased the bedding capacity of held isolation centres to 11,680, that of intensive care units (ICUs) to 332 from 203 and high dependency units (HDUs) to 620 from 309, both in publicand private sectors.

In a report submitted to the Supreme Court, the Sindh home department explained that further expansion of such facilities had also been planned and it would be implemented in the coming days.

A five-judge SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, is hearing a case about measures being taken by the federal and provincial governments to combat the menace of coronavirus pandemic in the country.

At the last hearing on June 8, the Supreme Court allowed the federal and provincial governments to make independent policies in accordance with their strategies to cope with the threat of coronavirus.

The Sindh government explained that the Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing capacity had also beenincreased to 11,486 in 21 laboratories across the province.

About the status of lockdown, it said the National Coordination Committee and the National Command and Control Centre had made a joint strategy to enforce targeted lockdowns commonly known as `smart lockdown` in localities/ areas experiencing massive number of Covid-19 positive cases.

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