Convalescent plasma successfully administered to Covid-19 patient.

HYDERABAD -- Convalescent plasma has been administered successfully to the first critical coronavirus patient in isolation ward of Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) Hyderabad on Sunday evening, say health officials.

The patient's condition was stated to be critical when he was administered the plasma which was donated to Diagnostic and Research Laboratory by a Covid-19 patient who had recovered from the disease.

'After trying to manage his condition as best as possible for some days the plasma has been administered,' said LUH isolation ward's focal person Dr Aftab Hussain Phull. The patient who originally hailed from Sanghar also resided in Latifabad's Kohsar area with his wife and daughter who were also infected with the virus.

The federal government had approved experimental use of convalescent plasma for the purpose of passive immunization in Covid-19 pandemic on April 7 and three hospitals - National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Liaquat UniverAsity of Medical and Health Sciences and University of Health Sciences Lahore - were allowed to conduct the trial use of plasma.

As many as 13 persons tested positive for Covid-19, majority of them cases of local transmission, in Hyderabad on Sunday, raising the tally of infected patients to 325, according to updated data released by health department.

Health officials said that the new patients had been shifted to isolation wards set up in different hospitals across the city. Of the 325 patients, 169 had so far recovered and discharged, four patients had lost their lives and 135 were still under treatment in isolation wards and at their homes, they said.

As of Sunday 105 patients were in Hyderabad district, out of them 55 were at home, 24 at Isra hospital, four at Kohisar hospital, five at CMH, 12 at Liaquat University Hospital and five patients were admitted to different hospitals in Karachi, they said.

SHIKARPUR: Ten more people, out of 61 samples collected a few days back in the city, were found to have the contagion caused by local transmission on Sunday.

The new cases included six women and four men, raising the total number of patients in the district to 100, among them 13 members of Tableeghi Jamaat and 87 cases of local transmission cases.

Of the 100 Covid-19 patients, 14 were members of Tableeghi Jamaat, who were shifted to Labour Colony quarantine centre in Sukkur, seven were sent to quarantine centre at a hostel in Army Public School Shikarpur and the...